Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously George Kraft IV wrote: > > We should all agree that root=0, and systems require the "bin" and "daemon" > > mnemonic user and group names. > > I would still like to see a rationale for requiring bin and daemon, they > do not seem to serve any purpose. >
The thought was that some applications (and/or shell scripts) could/would fail if root.root, bin.bin, and daemon.daemon did not exist on a system; however, the other user and group names in the optional table below are just suggested. http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/usernames.html In short, the LSB v1.1.0 specification requires: root.root = 0 bin.bin = 1 daemon.daemon However, we've had a long discussion regarding bin = 1, and we will address that. :-) George (gk4)
