OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du samedi 15 novembre 2008, vers 10:16, Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> disait : >> 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? > This has been discussed a couple of times, but IIRC without definitive > conclusion. "Debian-" and "debian-" seem to be as prefixes as well. > Maybe it is easiest to just go with something that is popular among > existing packages you care about. On systems that I have access to, there is Debian-exim and no user starting with underscore. However, I have a lot of system users without special prefixes. Do you have some popular packages with a system user starting with "debian-" in mind? -- No fortunes found
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