Simon McVittie smcv at 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
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 reserved
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 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 concrete
❦ 7 février 2014 10:52 CET, Paul Wise p...@debian.org :
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
Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org 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
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
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk 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
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
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
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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bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:57:32 +
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr 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
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
* Paul Wise p...@debian.org, 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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Jakub Wilk
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To
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:15:18 +
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr
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
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
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