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Re: daemon user naming scheme



On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> wrote:
> 
> > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
> 
> typo?
> 
> adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID

The sysadmin may have written scripts and things that assume the
existing username. Instead of removing the old one, maybe add a new
one with the same uid, gid, groups, etc?

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