username best practices and other conventions

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:21:12PM +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> I think it's time to move beyond those traditional limits. At some
> point we got over the 14 char file name limits, and the world is a
> better place for it.
> 
> I much prefer to spend a few more characters for clarity. Eg

 Hmm.. spend for what? For example "ps aux" uses all terminal columns
 and on traditional terminal with 80 columns there will be less space
 for the command column. So we will lost a lot of useful information
 about all processes, because there is one process that running with
 obscure username. I think 8 chars is good compromise. BTW, if you
 want to see full usernames you can use:

 ps -eo user:14,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start_time,time,command
 
> > IMHO, Fedora should respect the traditional best practices and
> > conventions (not speaking solely about usernames) and not violate them
> > without good reason. It seems there is maybe a carefree indifference or
> > possibly ignorant attitude about the "old ways". Breaking long standing
> > conventions in itself violates the principal of least surprise --
> > something sys admins do not care for.

 Agree.

> > distcache = 9
> > haldaemon = 9
> > nfsnobody = 9
> > webalizer = 9
> > beagleindex = 11

 Please, fill bugzilla.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>