Re: Using the user nobody in my package
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 12:59:56PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > This is ongoing documentation work, see
> > http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts
> >
>
> As far as I can see, this doc gives (IHMO) no real directions and says
> that it's under discussion on how to get UIDs...
Yes, it is an aid to build consensus.
> I'm now switching to use the username 'dtc'
May I suggest using something that is less likely to clash with local
user names, such as "Debian-dtc"?
> and I save in my database this username and it's UID
Why do you do that? Use getent in your scripts.
Greetings
Marc
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