On Monday 19 December 2011, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Christian Boltz wrote:
Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011 schrieb Rüdiger Meier:
On Friday 16 December 2011, Pascal Bleser wrote:
On 2011-12-15 09:30:56 (+0100), Ludwig Nussel wrote:
So what about mandating an extra prefix or suffix to (new) system user names like 'daemon' or 'service'?
^^^^^
That being said, won't it be a massive pain in the bottom to migrate existing packages to that convention ? As well as for package upgrades ?
I guess there's a reason why Ludwig wrote "(new) system user" ;-)
I agree that changing the existing system users would be a pain. OTOH avoiding possible conflicts at least for new system users is better than nothing.
Exactly. Maybe we don't need a hard policy either but rather only decide on a case by case basis. 'tor' certainly is something I'd like to see renamed as it's a) very short and b) a valid first name in some languages. Things like e.g. 'lightdm' on the other hand are rather unlikely to collide I suppose :-)
Ok, somehow I've missed that soft policy part for new users only. Anyway IMO would be nice to keep such usernames short (8 chars) such that ps shows them correctly per default. For this particual case, what about tord, torrun or torsys? cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org