>From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> IIRC, I think the reasoning went as follows:
>> - The LSB format is based on RPM which has a CPIO archive
>> - CPIO archives store uid/gids as numbers, not names
>RPM does not have that limitation
>> - Hence the daemon user must have a fixed uid
>RPM does not have that limitation either
>> Note that once the program is running, it can use getpwent(). We're talking
>Doesn't help you - the password file is not the first package installed on
>a typical distro
So RPM _has_ that limitation....
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