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Re: system users



On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> On  some  systems  like  OpenBSD,  all those  users  are  starting  with
> underscore to avoid  collision with real users. On  Debian, I have never
> seen  this, even  for packages  that comes  from OpenBSD  (like openntpd
> which uses "ntpd"). Is there some drawbacks with underscore?

None.  In fact, is a damn good solution to the problem.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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