Hi, On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > So, I'm wondering if we shouldn't pick a more neutral name without a previous > history in Debian. > One suggestion is to use group "admin". Ubuntu has been using that group for > exactly the purpose what we are going for and I think it is a pretty > adequate name. > > One concern that was already mentioned is, that the existing group adm and > admin > are too similar and prone to mistyping.
Now that we ruled out most of the alternatives (maybe except "staff" yet?), I re-read this and believe this is not such a great argument. "admin" is used by Ubuntu already, which I think is a fairly strong argument in favor of it. And really, who needs typing those groups? Only sysadmins I guess, and I believe we trust them to either keep "adm" and "admin" apart and/or fix up their error afterwards. There is more than this (non-)issue to shoot yourself in the foot as root on the commandline, if you are care- or clueless. How will regular users get in contact with "admin" (or even "adm"?) and how would this be confusing and/or a possibility for mistyping? I think this is the question we need to address. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101021090336.ge32...@nighthawk.chemicalconnection.dyndns.org
