On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Broderick Wood enlightened us: > My resistance comes from the fact that we have been using AMANDA for about > 2 years whereas we have had a user called "amanda" for about 15 years... > > I also don't want to do a source build as we are maintaining about 500+ > machines in varying state of OS version/patch/etc... > > We use CfEngine to push out our localizations so I can fairly easily push a > RPM to a machine and have been doing so which works fine except for TAR > backups which is where I run into the hard-coded problem. > > > > So I am building a custom RPM and we'll see how that goes... There goes > the easy maintenance of YUM and such for updating it... >
One of the suggestions from a *BSD person was to follow the same convention of naming system accounts _username instead of username, so that when Amanda Smith has an account on your system as amanda, you don't collide. I believe that's in a bugzilla on redhat's site, you might voice your opinion there if that is something you'd be interested in. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263