Re: nogroup or nobody ?
On 01-07-18 Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > 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.
But we could inform the admin about this change, give them some time to
change all local configurations which involve a group nogroup instead of
nobody and then remove this group. I'm not very happy about the OpenBSD
approach of having two group names for the same purpose. Reducing it to
one, would in my opinion be better, but I will need to think more about
a sane transition plan first.
Christian
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