Simon McVittie debian.org> writes:
> If we standardize on "_*" (or capital letters or whatever) for packaged
Users with capital letters sometimes cannot receive eMail correctly.
(Using _ in my packages since I think the BSDs’ approach sensible.)
> accounts, then "adduser --system" could also s
previously on this list Simon McVittie contributed:
> > So I'd agree with the underscore but see the not allowing the local
> > sysadmin to create accounts easily with it as a bad thing as they could
> > perfectly well want to avoid collisions with packages as much as a
> > debian dev.
>
> A co
On 10/02/14 13:46, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> So I'd agree with the underscore but see the not allowing the local
> sysadmin to create accounts easily with it as a bad thing as they could
> perfectly well want to avoid collisions with packages as much as a
> debian dev.
A concrete example, please? If
previously on this list Peter Palfrader contributed:
> > I would really like to standardize on some prefix.
>
> > I like _ as a prefix because adduser doesn't allow the local sysadmin to
> > create accounts with that prefix without special flags, which I think
> > makes it a more useful reserve
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I would really like to standardize on some prefix.
> I like _ as a prefix because adduser doesn't allow the local sysadmin to
> create accounts with that prefix without special flags, which I think
> makes it a more useful reserved namespace.
Just a me
Jonas Smedegaard writes:
> Seems you are essentially talking about this;
> usermod -l $NEWNAME $OLDNAME
> What would such --rename option to adduser script contain, beyond that?
Ah, I was looking in the wrong place. Thanks!
I would like something to check that the account is a system accou
Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-02-08 22:11:04)
> The one piece that we do need if we're going to standardize, on top of
> an agreement that standardization is useful, is an adduser --rename
> command. There are a bunch of packages in the archive right now that
> stomp on the normal account namespace
Vincent Bernat writes:
> There was no consensus if I remember correctly. And many of the
> expressed voices preferred the `Debian-` prefix. As far as I am
> concerned, I don't understand why we can't follow systems that have
> solved this problem since years by adopting the underscore prefix (*BS
❦ 7 février 2014 10:52 CET, Paul Wise :
>> Choose a name which is less likely to conflict, e.g. exim uses Debian-exim.
>
> I think consensus was converging on prefixing an underscore for system
> users (_foo) last time we discussed this.
There was no consensus if I remember correctly. And many
On 2014-02-07 09:57, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> during the installation I generate a .my.cnf in the system user tango home
> which I set under
> /usr/lib/tango in the package
That should be under /var, not /usr, especially if you dynamically
generate stuff there.
And if that is a configura
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:15:18 +
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
wrote:
> > I don't think there is much that can reall be done to fix the
> > fundamental problem which is that system users and regular users
> > have to live in the same namespace causing a risk of conflicts.
>
> > There are two things I
* Paul Wise , 2014-02-07, 17:52:
Choose a name which is less likely to conflict, e.g. exim uses Debian-exim.
I think consensus was converging on prefixing an underscore for system
users (_foo) last time we discussed this.
Well, #248809 is still open…
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What is the correct way to deal with this kind of problem ? I cannot find in
the policy something
about conflict between system and non-system user.
I don't think there is much that can reall be done to fix the
fundamental problem which is that system users and regular users have to
live in
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Neil Williams wrote:
> Choose a name which is less likely to conflict, e.g. exim uses Debian-exim.
I think consensus was converging on prefixing an underscore for system
users (_foo) last time we discussed this.
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:57:32 +
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am the maintainer of the tango package which contain the tango-db
> binary.
>
> This tango-db provide a service called tango-db which connect to a
> mysql database. I follow the debian-policy to create a dedicated
>
Hello,
I am the maintainer of the tango package which contain the tango-db binary.
This tango-db provide a service called tango-db which connect to a mysql
database.
I follow the debian-policy to create a dedicated system user for this services.
So I used the tango user which is the name of the
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