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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:47:45 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>
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Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:45:34PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote..
> From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> > Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add _dhcp user/group as required by the OpenBSD dhclient.
> > 
> > What is the point of the underscore in _dhcp and _pflogd?
> 
> It's a convention used for system UIDs to prevent namespace collisions with
> user accounts.

Then it is not really all to consistently used (politely speaking) 
looking at what by default lives in /etc/passwd as system UIDs...

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org