Re: LSB Users & Groups
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:43:12PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously George Kraft IV wrote:
> > 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
>
> That doesn't answer my question though. There is no (documented or
> otherwise) reason for bin and daemon existing. Nobody seems to know
> what to use them for and I haven't ever seen anything that uses them.
>
> Leaving them in LSB can only lead to different possibly conflicting
> kinds of usage for those accounts which does not help at all.
>
> The thought that an application might break also wasn't valid: applications
> can break due to any difference between LSB and existing systems,
> so if you follow that argument the LSB would have to document every
> possible existing Linux system or an application just might break.
>
> If an application does need an account for a special reason it can
> always create a system account for itself and use that.
>
> Wichert.
>
Completely agree. Those accounts exist for hystorical reasons in
other unices. I see no real rationale to require their existence
in debian nowdays.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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