On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > > [Marc Haber] >> Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to >> avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose >> differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the >> fact that some tools handle the long user name suboptimally. > > Some of the tools are top and ps, which only list the uid (as if the > user did not exist) if the username is longer than the POSIX lower > limit of 8 characters long. Ran into problems with the killer > package. It believed processes belonged to deleted users when it ran > into processes owned by such users, and tried to kill them. > Workaround is implemented there, but other packages might have similar > problems.
Sounds like bugs which should get fixed anyway. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimwaol2ez5hk-54nmsbjo5ccuykug+dnoyhv...@mail.gmail.com
