On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:32:33PM -0500, in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donnie Berkholz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It might be a good idea to keep system users to one user per package,
> instead of generic things, so everything has just one purpose. For
> example, user "heartbeat" instead of "cluster."

Agreed. Daemons are like users without bodies. They need unique names. I
can see undesired consequences of, for example, forcing every server
package in net-ftp to run as the user 'ftp'. If you really want to get
freaky with the idea though, the usernames assigned to daemons should
be locally configurable. Think this one is worthy of a GLEP?

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