Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-25 Thread gustavo panizzo
hi On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 03:09:05PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: Dan Purgert writes: No, package management doesn't touch usernames. They're kept as a reference so that when you look at a logfile (etc.) that's still owned by that UID, you'll get the username instead of just an ID number.

Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Oct 2018 at 15:09:05 (+0200), Steve Keller wrote: > Dan Purgert writes: > > > No, package management doesn't touch usernames. They're kept as a > > reference so that when you look at a logfile (etc.) that's still owned > > by that UID, you'll get the username instead of just an ID numb

Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 03:09:05PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Of course the file uids/gids have to be changed too, but that's easy > (in single user mode, when no daemons are running using these IDs). > The question is whether Debian expects certain users/groups to have a > fixed value or if I am

Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Steve Keller
Dan Purgert writes: > No, package management doesn't touch usernames. They're kept as a > reference so that when you look at a logfile (etc.) that's still owned > by that UID, you'll get the username instead of just an ID number. Well, the package management *does* create users and groups when

Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 01:40:57PM +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Debian uses some long (more than 8 chars) user and group names which I > don't particularly like, e.g. > > systemd-timesync > systemd-network > Debian-exim > messagebus > telnetd-ssl > > This is annoy

Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Dan Purgert
Steve Keller wrote: > Debian uses some long (more than 8 chars) user and group names which I > don't particularly like, e.g. > > [...] > > This is annoying with ps(1) which abbreviates these names. For more > than 20 years I have always limited user names to 8 chars on all my > Unix and Unix-like

System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Steve Keller
Debian uses some long (more than 8 chars) user and group names which I don't particularly like, e.g. systemd-timesync systemd-network Debian-exim messagebus telnetd-ssl This is annoying with ps(1) which abbreviates these names. For more than 20 years I have always limited use