[Bug 974] Installation issues when user "pcp" and/or group "pcp" already defined

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Comment # 2 on bug 974 from Ken McDonell

Agreed there is no way to tell automatically.

But a sys admin should be able to do _something_ and then install/upgrade the
package and have the right thing happen.

I think the pcp:pcp uses in the install scripts are wrong.  They should use
$PCP_USER and $PCP_GROUP, with values possibly coming from some sysadmin
setting (e.g. in the environment when the install/upgrade is done), else
failing that the default values of pcp and pcp.

Setting PCP_USER in /etc/pcp.conf is not going to help if all the chown stuff
in the packaging install scripts have set the uid/gid to something else.

Looking up the group from getpwent for $PCP_USER is fine at run time ... I am
more concerned about the account creation and ownership settings at the time of
install/upgrade.

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