❦ 9 février 2019 13:10 +01, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>: > Some core packages recently adding system users resorted to names like > systemd-$daemon and _apt, which both address my concerns - as you can > come up with simple rules like "no user might include [-_] in their > username". On the other hand I know that Debian-* was painful and > annoying for exim, but I suspect mostly because of the length of the > username and tools dealing poorly with >8 character usernames. I think > FreeBSD (among others?) picked the underscore at the front of the > username. Intuitively that feels like a somewhat clean proposal that > is also friendly to derivatives. > > How do others deal with this problem? Could someone think of a viable > approach on how to approach this from a policy side? This is a recurring topic. See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248809 -- Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain
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