On 03/26/2014 11:55 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Many packages need to add user and group names for their unprivileged daemons. Currently openSUSE Factory has a known lists of more than 130<<A>> such daemon user names. Many names are short for convenience, e.g. 'pop', 'vdr', 'tor' or 'znc'. Since there is no separate name space for system users those names may collide with names of real persons.
Well, if one wants to avoid name clashes, then why not avoiding names at all? I mean AFAIK there's no reason why a daemon shouldn't be run by UID/GID, is there? ;-) Even venerable chroot(1) allows that with the +UID:+GID notation: $ chroot --userspec=+1234:+2345 / /usr/bin/id uid=1234 gid=2345 And there are several other tools out there for this, ... and there are namespaces, as already mentioned by someone else. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org