Re: nogroup or nobody ?
Christian Kurz wrote:
> since I just had to fix pinfo to use again nogroup instead of nobody, I
> wondered which one we want to use in debian. The LSB states that we
> should use nobody and according to my knowledge the BSDs also use
> nobody. We are using currently nogroup. Would it be possible to change
> this to nobody soon or should we stay with nogroup really?
It is currently policy to use nogroup. If you think debian should switch
to the (gramatically incorrect) nobody group, post a policy change
proposal and a transition plan.
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