* Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) wrote: > Bear in mind that there are people like me who are trying to deploy Debian > as the operating system for public login clusters, where we have no way of > retroactively deciding that some username isn't okay because it conflicts > with a system user. The standard stuff (sys, bin, etc.) has been reserved > long-back, but we certainly haven't reserved every name that matches a > Debian package name. Uh, no where *near* every Debian package needs it's own username. There are a few here and there which do outside of the 'standard' stuff (mysql, sshd, identd, postgres, smmsp) but not all that many really. Have you actually run into a problem with these names to date? I appriciate your concern but the only package I know of to do this nastiness is exim, it would seem likely to me that if this was really a common occurance that there'd be examples and bug reports about it. Stephen
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