Re: LSB Users & Groups

[George Kraft IV <gk4@austin.ibm.com>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> Previously George Kraft IV wrote:
> > We should all agree that root=0, and systems require the "bin" and "daemon"
> > mnemonic user and group names.
> 
> I would still like to see a rationale for requiring bin and daemon, they
> do not seem to serve any purpose.
> 

The thought was that some applications (and/or shell scripts) could/would fail
if root.root, bin.bin, and daemon.daemon did not exist on a system; however, the
other user and group names in the optional table below are just suggested.

http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/usernames.html

In short, the LSB v1.1.0 specification requires:

root.root = 0
bin.bin = 1
daemon.daemon

However, we've had a long discussion regarding bin = 1, and we will address
that.  :-)

George (gk4)