Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:54:05PM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> - Installed programs may want to use the daemon user
LSB programs? I don't see what justification they would have for
doing so, since the daemon user is specified as "Subprocess special
privileges", whatever that means. I think it would be much cleaner
to specify that LSB programs should create their own users for
daemon processes. (useradd is in LSB, and separate uids is better
for security.)
Similarly with bin: "Administrative user with some restrictions"
doesn't tell me anything about how I, as a packager of an LSB
program, would use it. Further, Debian has had user bin forever
(probably for the same reason as the LSB: vague tradition), yet
AFAICT has found absolutely no use for it.
Why can't we end-around this whole issue by dropping these users
from the LSB?
This is the bug I filed:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=451195&group_id=1107&atid=101107
Andrew
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