On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > It is currently policy to use nogroup. If you think debian should switch > > to the (gramatically incorrect) nobody group, post a policy change > > Do we care about grammar more then being LSB-compliant and using the > same names/groups as other Linux oder BSD? fwiw OpenBSD has both a nobody and nogroup groups. > > proposal and a transition plan. > > Well, I'll maybe do that, but first I want to ensure that I'm not the > only one who would be interested in changing this name. Also I'm quite > sure that this change would only happen for unstable and so take some > time until the proposal would be considered. the only way you can satisfy a possible need for a nobody group is to add that in addition to leaving the nogroup group in place. otherwise you WILL break local admin configurations that debian is unaware of. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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