Bug#248809: policy needed for user names Debian name space
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:14:12PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:51:56 +0200, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>
> wrote:
> >On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:27:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> First, Debian-foo usernames won't be present in gazillions.
> >
> >If that's the case, then what's the point?
>
> For a number of packages that need to create local accounts and want
> to minimize namespace pollution.
I would submit that the amount of pollution depends on the package name.
For example, I expect there are more people around with a pseudo of exim
than with a pseudo of console-log (though console-log already break the
8-char limit, so dear to some sysadmins and some version of NIS).
Already exim4 is less a problem than exim.
I am personnaly neutral. I agree we should not create account with
random name, but the UNIX tradition is for system account to have short
name. I suspect we need a better technical solution.
The current security trend about priviledge separation leads to the
needs of far more system account. That need to be accounted for.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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