On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:49:12AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Hi! > > ,----[ http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts ] > | A collision free way to name system accounts should really be mentioned > | in Debian policy to stop this uncontrolled growth of different methods. > `---- > > Is it any progress on this matter? While more and more daemon become > unprivileged or "privilege separation"-able, we get more and more system > users. > > On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with > underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never > seen this, even for packages that comes from OpenBSD (like openntpd > which uses "ntpd"). Is there some drawbacks with underscore?
That is nice. We will be able to get reasonable output under ps command for exim4 too. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]