Hi, On Sat, 15.11.2008 at 08:49:12 +0100, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote: > On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with > underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never > seen this, even for packages that comes from OpenBSD (like openntpd > which uses "ntpd"). Is there some drawbacks with underscore?
none that I'm aware of. I dimly remember having read that some (all?) authentication methods available to users don't accept names with underscores, so the only ways to assume such a UID would be to call "setuid(number)" and "seteuid(number)", which would be a good thing, too. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
