On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc Haber] > > Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to > > avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose > > differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the > > fact that some tools handle the long user name suboptimally. > > Some of the tools are top and ps, which only list the uid (as if the > user did not exist) if the username is longer than the POSIX lower > limit of 8 characters long. Ran into problems with the killer > package. It believed processes belonged to deleted users when it ran > into processes owned by such users, and tried to kill them. > Workaround is implemented there, but other packages might have similar > problems.
Previously here, people has suggested that in some other unix distro (FreeBSD?) naming of such account as _inadyn with preceding underscore are used to avoid such name crash. Although this seems more elegant than Debian-inadyn, it is not yet established practice for Debian. For now, we need to stick to Debian-inadyn style naming. But I wish to have non-ugly account names adn hoping some one to push such practices. Cheers, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101208120957.gc15...@debian.org
