Bug 162891

Summary:	removing sendmail leaves user smmsp and mailnull
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Leigh Upton <global-unix-team>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Leigh Upton 2005-07-11 12:46:54 UTC

Description of problem:
When removing or replacing sendmail with another MTA, the users smmsp and
mailnull are not removed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1,
exists in previous versions, too.


How reproducible:
Remove sendmail after a replace with postfix (for example).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install postfix
2. remove sendmail
3. check for existance of mailnull and smmsp users
  
Actual results:
users still exist.

Expected results:
users smmsp and mailnull should be gone

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Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2005-07-11 12:51:33 UTC

No package may ever remove users or groups by package removal. This could have
strange effects to the whole system.

Closing as "NOT A BUG".