No,
It was never used. Jim never explained WHY he wanted it. I'm fixing the installer now.

Steve

On 5/10/2017 3:36 PM, Steve Passmore wrote:
Thanks Steve,

I removed the user on the affected machine,  Should I expect any problems?

Steve, k6kya

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Steve Zingman <szingman@msgstor.com> wrote:
That is a leftover "mandated" from above. It will be disabled in the RC.

Steve N4IRS


On 5/10/2017 3:15 PM, Steve Passmore wrote:
Does anyone know what the user "debian" is used for in the DIAL distro?    I had a node compromised where it appears they guessed the password for the user debian.  I note on other un-compromised nodes there is a preexisting user "debian" with a password set. 
The attacker installed a bitcoin miner, storing their files under /var/tmp/.new     chrootkit reported it as possibly being the Mumblehard backdoor.

I'd suggest anyone with a DIAL node, at the very least, remove the user "debian"'s password.

passwd -d debian

Steve, k6kya


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