Bernhard Voelker wrote:
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? ;-)
Then we'd need a registry of uids in addition to /etc/passwd to block already taken uids. Otherwise useradd may re-use uids taken by daemons or two daemons may use the same uid. That sounds more awkward to me. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org