On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:43:12PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously George Kraft IV wrote: > > 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 > > That doesn't answer my question though. There is no (documented or > otherwise) reason for bin and daemon existing. Nobody seems to know > what to use them for and I haven't ever seen anything that uses them. > > Leaving them in LSB can only lead to different possibly conflicting > kinds of usage for those accounts which does not help at all. > > The thought that an application might break also wasn't valid: applications > can break due to any difference between LSB and existing systems, > so if you follow that argument the LSB would have to document every > possible existing Linux system or an application just might break. > > If an application does need an account for a special reason it can > always create a system account for itself and use that. > > Wichert. >
Completely agree. Those accounts exist for hystorical reasons in other unices. I see no real rationale to require their existence in debian nowdays. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
