RE:daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> # usermod -l newname oldname > (Other things can also be modified at the same time, see the man page.) thanks a lot Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists

RE:daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> Fake it. > UID=$(id -u tango) > GID=$(id -g tango) > deluser tango > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID I like this fake rename because it cause no troubles to the files already owned by the tango user BÙT in case of an idempotent pre/post scripts. what happend if I delete the tango users be

RE:daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> This has the advantage of being short and downstreams not having lots of > Debian-* > users on their systems possibly confusing users not familiar with > Debian. I'd be nice to standardize on this. I have the same problem in one of my package. #737956 I would like to rename the system user tang