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Re: SPF - exim4 + debian.org



[Jiri Klouda]
> And one final one. Who had that dumb idea to let exim4 run under
> user and group "Debian-exim" Seriously, why cannot this just be
> "exim"? Really?  Or at least "deb-exim"? You should know that
> anything over 8 characters will mess up all the output of ls and ps
> and yadayada...

Not only that, but this make that username incompatible with systems
with the POSIX minimum size limit on user names, as given
_POSIX_LOGIN_NAME_MAX.  See
<URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/limits.h.html>
for the current value (8).



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