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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Application Servers Installation and Users Post 302183649 by era on Wednesday 9th of April 2008 03:00:59 PM
Old 04-09-2008
Debian policy call these "system users" but there's not much on the topic in there. Debian Policy Manual - The Operating System

AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts - Debian Wiki also has some discussion from a Debian perspective.

I'm not saying Debian is necessarily the best role model but they tend to have documentation for these kinds of things. Turns out even they don't have much.

I believe the recommendation for e.g. Apache is actually to have two different accounts, where www-data owns the actual files served by the application, and apache (I guess) is the account which runs the daemon. The reasoning is that if the daemon is broken into, you have partitioned the ownerships so that it can't damage the files (it only need to read them to serve them, after all).
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dh_installmenu

DH_INSTALLMENU(1)						     Debhelper							 DH_INSTALLMENU(1)

NAME

       dh_installmenu - install Debian menu files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installmenu [debhelperoptions] [-n]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build
       directories.

       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands are
       inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).

FILES

       debian/package.menu
	   Debian menu files, installed into usr/share/menu/package in the package build directory. See menufile(5) for its format.

       debian/package.menu-method
	   Debian menu method files, installed into etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory.

OPTIONS

       -n, --noscripts
	   Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7) update-menus(1) menufile(5)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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