On Sat 24-07-04 13:13:00, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst (wouter@grep.be) wrote: > > Not necessarily. The Debian system could be a NIS master; and the > > default setup of the NIS packages in Debian is to use /etc/passwd and > > friends. > > Not to mention that, sorry, it's just fucking ugly to have a username by > 'Debian-exim'. It doesn't seem to make a damn but of sense either, has > anyone got any justification for this ugliness? > > Stephen That is the point. Nobody can tell me that we are trying to avoid some namespace polution... These are my system groups: root daemon bin sys adm tty disk lp mail news uucp man proxy kmem dialout fax voice cdrom floppy tape sudo audio dip majordom postgres www-data backup msql operator list irc src gnats shadow utmp video sasl staff games qmail crontab ssh scanner telnetd archive gdm fbgetty dictd clamav lpadmin mysql .. and ... Debian-exim I mean, if the GNU utilities will take in account user/group names over 8 characters, I am fine with that, but they don't. It breaks all the output, it broke my scripts (otherwise I might not notice) and its just ugly. -Jiri -- Jiri Klouda <jk@zg.cz> http://www.zg.cz/~jk
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