previously on this list Simon McVittie contributed: > > So I'd agree with the underscore but see the not allowing the local > > sysadmin to create accounts easily with it as a bad thing as they could > > perfectly well want to avoid collisions with packages as much as a > > debian dev. > > A concrete example, please? If you (as local sysadmin) always create > accounts matching [a-z]*, and Debian packages always create accounts > matching _*, then your local actions can't collide with Debian packages.
Oops, I guess I read it too fast, sorry for wasting your time. I thought system accounts were going to get the underscore. Which means the preventing admin makes more sense but the synergy possibly being the opposite. In any case, before this morning I thought OpenBSD underscored users were chrooted or something along those lines and it turns out it was the Absolute OpenBSD book that says they are unpriviledged users which from taking a look stands up with mysql package/port unpriviledged user also using underscore. The fact that basically all of the daemons are unpriviledged is a testament to OpenBSD I guess. So the mailing list thread I based OpenBSD using underscore for non base users was wrong despite being made by a usually reliable source or actually I'm guessing has possibly changed now that basically all base daemons are unpriviledged. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________ -- 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/84316.34880...@smtp108.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
