Simon McVittie writes (Re: daemon user naming scheme):
It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
/var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
_foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever.
You need to be careful that the directory chosen never
On 05/09/14 16:03, Ian Jackson wrote:
Simon McVittie writes (Re: daemon user naming scheme):
It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
/var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
_foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever.
You need
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
Simon McVittie writes (Re: daemon user naming scheme):
It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
/var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
_foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever.
You need
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
* Debian-foo
* Dfoo
Uppercase may have problems dealing with eMail.
Sometimes, dæmon users may want that. I strongly suggest
to not use uppercase letters in usernames, system or not.
I think I slightly
Hi,
Matt Zagrabelny:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de
wrote:
adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
typo?
adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
Right. Of course. Thanks for spotting. :-/
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Several :-(
The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user
whose simple name is foo):
* _foo
* foo
Hi,
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel:
I would like to rename the system user tango - _tango
But I do not know how to do this rename properly :((
Fake it.
UID=$(id -u tango)
GID=$(id -g tango)
deluser tango
adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote:
adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
typo?
adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
-mz
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de
wrote:
adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
typo?
adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID
The sysadmin may have written scripts and things that assume
Hi!
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 11:02:54 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
This has the advantage of being short and downstreams not having lots of
Debian-*
users on their systems possibly confusing users not familiar with
Debian. I'd be nice to standardize on this.
I have the same
Hi,
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel:
BÙT
in case of an idempotent pre/post scripts.
what happend if I delete the tango users before creating the new _tango user.
Actually, nothing prevents you from creating _tango first.
another important point in my case is that I need to do some mysql operation
Hello List,
is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Thanks in advance,
Jerome
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On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Several :-(
The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user
whose simple name is foo):
* _foo
* foo
* debian-foo
* Debian-foo
* Dfoo
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin
Thanks for the prompt reply.
On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Several :-(
The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user
whose simple name is foo):
* _foo
On 25/08/14 17:20, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply.
On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ?
Several :-(
The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon
On 25/08/14 18:30, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
On 25/08/14 16:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
I think I slightly prefer _foo, which originated in *BSD.
Moreover, _foo is not accepted by adduser, the option --force-badname must be
used.
Correct. Debian-foo has the same property; debian-foo does not.
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