[Marc Haber] > Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to > avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose > differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the > fact that some tools handle the long user name suboptimally.
Some of the tools are top and ps, which only list the uid (as if the user did not exist) if the username is longer than the POSIX lower limit of 8 characters long. Ran into problems with the killer package. It believed processes belonged to deleted users when it ran into processes owned by such users, and tried to kill them. Workaround is implemented there, but other packages might have similar problems. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- 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/2flipz43a9q....@login1.uio.no
