Hello, On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > "Iain R. Learmonth" <irl@fsfe.org> writes: >> On 23/02/14 01:28, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > >>> You can find the recent thread here if you'd like to read it: > >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00187.html > >> Ignore me there. It seems that at the end of the thread it did settle on >> prefixing with _ for the reason Russ has given. Warnings are thrown when >> someone attempts to create users prefixed with an underscore. > > The other advantage over debian- is that it doesn't add as many > characters, making it less likely that programs like ps and ls will give > up and show UIDs instead of names. Which always confuses at least me, as > I try to figure out why processes are running as users that aren't > properly created on the system. > Utterly *horrible* behavior; Typical excuse. > -- > Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> …always knew we could rely upon you. Save us
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