Bug#584810: Choosing a saner name for _lldpd ?

[Vincent Bernat]

tags 584810 + wontfix
thanks

OoO En ce début de soirée  du dimanche 06 juin 2010, vers 21:22, Fabrice
Lorrain  disait :

> The package is creating and using a user & group _lldpd for running the
> daemon. There is nothing wronk with it, but it's a bit uncommon/weird
> on a Debian system (didn't find anything in the policy on the subject though).

> Would you mind renaming it to something more "classical" (for ex. lldp or 
> lldpd)
> at least for the debian package ?

There is  nothing in  the policy about  this. Using a  username starting
with underscore is the common way to do things on OpenBSD which features
a lot of  privilege separated daemons. This avoids  any collision with a
real username.

I don't really see what is inconvenient with this username and migrating
to another username is difficult. I don't think this will change.
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Bug#584810: Choosing a saner name for _lldpd ?

[Fabrice Lorrain]

Package: lldpd
Version: 0.4.2-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

The package is creating and using a user & group _lldpd for running the
daemon. There is nothing wronk with it, but it's a bit uncommon/weird
on a Debian system (didn't find anything in the policy on the subject though).

Would you mind renaming it to something more "classical" (for ex. lldp or lldpd)
at least for the debian package ?

Thanks.

@+,
Fab



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lldpd depends on:
ii  adduser3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6  2.11.1-2  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libsnmp15  5.4.2.1~dfsg-5+b1 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr

lldpd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lldpd suggests:
pn  snmpd  (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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