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Re: nogroup or nobody ?



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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