[Fedora-packaging] Re: Possible UsersAndGroupsDraft

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Fri Jun 15 15:50:48 UTC 2007


>>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:

RC> The worst case probably is using a "last name is username"
RC> convention and your last name being "Root", "Mail" or "Windows" ;)

If this really concerns us, then we could consider a naming policy for
system users.  Something like prefixing them with "sys-", maybe.
We've already broken the 8-character limit for system users
(haldaemon), so it's not as if this would be getting into new
territory.

 - J<




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