Bug#259418: distributed-net: would like to run as seperate user, 'dnetc' instead of 'daemon'

[Stephen Stafford <ssta@clothcat.org>]

Quoting Brian Minton <bminton@efn.org>:

> I would like to see a seperate user, 'dnetc' with a home directory of
> /var/lib/distributed-net to run the distributed.net client.  That way I
> could give it full permissions in that directory.  This would be useful
> for instance in using remote buffers.
> 

Hi,

What would be the advantage of this over the current system?  The daemon user
already has full permissions for that directory:
    drwxr-xr-x    2 daemon   daemon       4096 Jul 12 00:07
/var/lib/distributed-net/

I'd be interested to hear your rationale for this.

Cheers,
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