Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-16 Thread Timur Birsh
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Timur Birsh] >> OK. I will use debian-inadyn for account name group names. >> Thank you all. > > Note that exim uses capital D in Debian for its user name. You might > want to be consistent and use Debian-inadyn. transmission-daemon[1] package uses lower-case d

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:15:44 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Timur Birsh] > > OK. I will use debian-inadyn for account name group names. > > Thank you all. > > Note that exim uses capital D in Debian for its user name. You might > want to be consistent and use Debian-inadyn. I know that

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:15:44 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >Personally I would recommend to not have user names with more than 8 >characters. This topic is too much governed by personal taste. Can we _please_ _finally_ establish a distribution standard for that? Greetings Marc -- --

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Timur Birsh] > OK. I will use debian-inadyn for account name group names. > Thank you all. Note that exim uses capital D in Debian for its user name. You might want to be consistent and use Debian-inadyn. Personally I would recommend to not have user names with more than 8 characters. Happy h

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-12 Thread Timur Birsh
Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:16:22 +0600, Timur Birsh > wrote: >>I'm packaging new version of inadyn package [1]. inadyn can run as daemon, >>therefore I created init.d script. Daemon supports dropping its privileges >>on start as well. I chose inadyn for the user name and inadyn fo

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [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 so

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Previously here, people has suggested that in some other unix distro > (FreeBSD?) naming of such account as _inadyn with preceding underscore > are used to avoid such name crash.  Although this seems more elegant > than Debian-inadyn, it is not y

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [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 > >

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[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

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:16:22 +0600, Timur Birsh wrote: >I'm packaging new version of inadyn package [1]. inadyn can run as daemon, >therefore I created init.d script. Daemon supports dropping its privileges >on start as well. I chose inadyn for the user name and inadyn for the group >name with

New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-07 Thread Timur Birsh
Hello Debian Developers, I'm packaging new version of inadyn package [1]. inadyn can run as daemon, therefore I created init.d script. Daemon supports dropping its privileges on start as well. I chose inadyn for the user name and inadyn for the group name with dynamically allocated system IDs.