Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> IIRC, I think the reasoning went as follows:
> - The LSB format is based on RPM which has a CPIO archive
> - CPIO archives store uid/gids as numbers, not names

RPM does not have that limitation

> - Hence the daemon user must have a fixed uid

RPM does not have that limitation either

> Note that once the program is running, it can use getpwent(). We're talking

Doesn't help you - the password file is not the first package installed on
a typical distro

> Ofcourse, I could be making this up...

Probably