Philip Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:15:25PM +0100, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>> With the suggested pathname of /etc/opt/csw/[pkgname]/cswug path, the
>> user account files are IMHO rather visible to the user, although a user
>> doesn't need to interact with these files.
>>
>> What would you think about placing them somewhere more "hidden"?
> 
> why?
> 
> after all, a user can just as easily do "ls" in most cases, or in worst
> case, "ps -ef",and find the "hidden" user that way.

I didn't want to suggest hiding something from anyone (no sense in doing
so, anyway), guess i have to work on my wording. Files in /etc just call
for being edited, they draw attention. Why put something there that is
for internal purposes only and doesn't need to be edited?

Sebastian
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