On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"):
> > It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
> > /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
> > _foo, deb
On 05/09/14 16:03, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"):
>> It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
>> /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
>> _foo, debian-foo, D
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"):
> It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
> /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
> _foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever.
You need to be careful that t
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >> * Debian-foo
> >> * Dfoo
Uppercase may have problems dealing with eMail.
Sometimes, dæmon users may want that. I strongly suggest
to not use uppercase letters in usernames, system or not.
> >> I think I s
Hi,
Matt Zagrabelny:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs
> wrote:
>
> > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
>
> typo?
>
> adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
>
Right. Of course. Thanks for spotting. :-/
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PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel:
> BÙT
> in case of an idempotent pre/post scripts.
> what happend if I delete the tango users before creating the new _tango user.
>
Actually, nothing prevents you from creating _tango first.
> another important point in my case is that I need to do some mysql operat
Hi!
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 11:02:54 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> > This has the advantage of being short and downstreams not having lots of
> > Debian-*
> > users on their systems possibly confusing users not familiar with
> > Debian. I'd be nice to standardize on this.
>
> I have the
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs
> wrote:
>
> > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
>
> typo?
>
> adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
The sysadmin may have written scripts and things that assume the
existing
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
typo?
adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
-mz
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PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel:
> I would like to rename the system user tango -> _tango
> But I do not know how to do this rename properly :((
>
Fake it.
UID=$(id -u tango)
GID=$(id -g tango)
deluser tango
adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
>
> Several :-(
>
> The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user
&
On 25/08/14 18:30, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>> I think I slightly prefer _foo, which originated in *BSD.
>
> Moreover, _foo is not accepted by adduser, the option --force-badname must be
> used.
Correct. Debian-foo has the same property; debian-foo does n
On 25/08/14 17:20, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply.
>
> On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>> is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
>>
>> Several :-(
>>
>&
Thanks for the prompt reply.
On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
>
> Several :-(
>
> The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user
&
On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Several :-(
The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user
whose simple name is "foo"):
* _foo
* foo
* debian-foo
* Debian-foo
* Dfoo
<https://bu
Hello List,
is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Thanks in advance,
Jerome
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