Re: conflict between system user and normal user
previously on this list Simon McVittie contributed:
> > So I'd agree with the underscore but see the not allowing the local
> > sysadmin to create accounts easily with it as a bad thing as they could
> > perfectly well want to avoid collisions with packages as much as a
> > debian dev.
>
> A concrete example, please? If you (as local sysadmin) always create
> accounts matching [a-z]*, and Debian packages always create accounts
> matching _*, then your local actions can't collide with Debian packages.
Oops, I guess I read it too fast, sorry for wasting your time. I thought
system accounts were going to get the underscore. Which means the
preventing admin makes more sense but the synergy possibly being the
opposite.
In any case, before this morning I thought OpenBSD underscored users
were chrooted or something along those lines and it turns out it was the
Absolute OpenBSD book that says they are unpriviledged users which from
taking a look stands up with mysql package/port unpriviledged user also
using underscore. The fact that basically all of the daemons are
unpriviledged is a testament to OpenBSD I guess.
So the mailing list thread I based OpenBSD using underscore for non
base users was wrong despite being made by a usually reliable source
or actually I'm guessing has possibly changed now that basically all
base daemons are unpriviledged.
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