Pascal Bleser wrote:
On 2011-12-20 14:45:49 (+0000), Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de> wrote:
On Thursday 15 Dec 2011 08:30:56 Ludwig Nussel wrote:
There's a request to add a system user 'tor': https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/96531
There is no name space separation between system users and actual logins. So especially for short names like the above there is a chance that it could collide with an already existing user name on some system. Having a system service running with the uid of an actual user isn't desirable. So what about mandating an extra prefix or suffix to (new) system user names like 'daemon' or 'service'? Ie in the above example the user name would be 'tor-daemon' or 'tor-service' instead of 'tor'. Other thoughts? [...] I don't see an immediate packaging issue, but as this is a new package to
Well, except the annoyance of
%post %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1220 useradd ... tord %else useradd ... tor %endif
tor never was in openSUSE so no such hacks needed. 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-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org