> IIRC, I think the reasoning went as follows: > - The LSB format is based on RPM which has a CPIO archive > - CPIO archives store uid/gids as numbers, not names
RPM does not have that limitation > - Hence the daemon user must have a fixed uid RPM does not have that limitation either > Note that once the program is running, it can use getpwent(). We're talking Doesn't help you - the password file is not the first package installed on a typical distro > Ofcourse, I could be making this up... Probably
