Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
Previously VomLehn, David wrote:
> I would urge some caution here. If I were to guess at a reason as to why
> bin has uid/gid of 1, I would suspect that some application
> installations use 1 as the bin uid/gid instead of looking it up.
But this already isn't portable since the uid of bin is not consistent
between Linux distributions.
> This may not be good practices, but the LSB work is primarily focused
> on codifying current practices, good or not.
codifying a current broken practice is broken. Also notice that the
description if bin and daemon in the LSB are vague at best which
suggests that there really is nobody who has any good reason for
having those accounts around.
Wichert.
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