Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-26 Thread Marco S Hyman
Ingo Schwarze writes: > > and the early versions (say, OpenBSD 3.0) > > Hey, Nick! Stop making people feel so old, > winter is depressive time anyway...;) 3.0 is not old! I have one copy of 2.3 still in its shrink wrap left on my shelf :-) // marc

Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-26 Thread Ingo Schwarze
> and the early versions (say, OpenBSD 3.0) Hey, Nick! Stop making people feel so old, winter is depressive time anyway...;) -- Puffy, Live In Concert (Dec 1, 2001): "Don'T TELL AnyonE! I'm FREE!"

Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-25 Thread Mike Lott
On 25/12/2007, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Lott wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I've been wondering why system accounts from UID 28 upwards are > > prepended with an underscore, whereas UID's in the range 0 up to 27 do > > not have this. I've done a bunch of searches on Google, but co

Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-25 Thread Nick Holland
Mike Lott wrote: > Hi list > > I've been wondering why system accounts from UID 28 upwards are > prepended with an underscore, whereas UID's in the range 0 up to 27 do > not have this. I've done a bunch of searches on Google, but come up > with nothing as yet. > > Could anyone enlighten me? Date

Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-25 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:23:34PM +0100, Mike Lott wrote: > Hi list > > I've been wondering why system accounts from UID 28 upwards are > prepended with an underscore, whereas UID's in the range 0 up to 27 do > not have this. I've done a bunch of searches on Google, but come up > with nothing as

Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-25 Thread Mike Lott
Hi list I've been wondering why system accounts from UID 28 upwards are prepended with an underscore, whereas UID's in the range 0 up to 27 do not have this. I've done a bunch of searches on Google, but come up with nothing as yet. Could anyone enlighten me? Thanks, Mike