In article <l03102801b949021c74d7@172.16.7.4>,
	Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> writes:
> Well, that's a minor tweak with vipw or chsh after the install.

Which has to be done manually while the package system could create a
decent account automatically.

> My inn1 package wants that account,

So it should be fixed.

> ... and so do the c-news, nntp, nnrpd packages that
> I have on the backburner.

Nobody will force you to delete that account on your system. It just
shouldn't be created by default.

> I probably have fewer machines around that use the 'ftp' account than
> 'news',

NetBSD never had an account "ftp" in the base system.

> ... and what about 'bin'?  ;)

I don't know what this account is still used for and it is not my
concern at the moment.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/