On 3/26/14, 2:32 PM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> Conclusion, in short, is to prefix system users (with some exceptions like
> root
> or nobody) with underscore '_'. So you would get users like '_pop', '_vdr',
> '_tor' or '_znc'. OpenBSD already does that[3]. openSUSE proposal with more
> details can
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> interesting discussion started in openSUSE mailing list[1][2] and I would like
> to open up the same question on this mailing list.
>
> Basically it is about the following problem. Citing parts of proposal:
>
> Many p
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:32:58 +0100
Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> Many packages need to add user and group names for their unprivileged
> daemons. Many names are short for convenience, e.g. 'pop', 'vdr',
> 'tor' or 'znc'. Since there is no separate name space for system
> users those names may collide
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On 26/03/14 14:32, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> So the question is, what would you think about such a policy in
> Gentoo?
It would be useful.
Scandinavians named Tor would likely be grateful. ;-)
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Hi all,
interesting discussion started in openSUSE mailing list[1][2] and I would like
to open up the same question on this mailing list.
Basically it is about the following problem. Citing parts of proposal:
Many packages need to add user and group names for their unprivileged daemons.
Many nam
