Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:38:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Jorge=20Mario=20G.?=" <murcielako@yahoo.com> To: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "user/group _pflogd:_pflogd" what's with the _ ? Message-ID: <20040630183858.24645.qmail@web50305.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <40E2FD7A.9050608@elvandar.org>
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> pflogd from OpenBSD is built to use _pflogd as user > (and group i thought). > > Can you tell us what you mean with "our" point of > view, are we talking > about a huge group? or your individual opinion > (that's usefull for > seeing if many people complain or only a few). > > I personally think that's nicer to have _daemonuser > so that all daemon users are directly visible from > output's. > It's also a safety measure, one can have _pflogd as > the pflogd user, and > pflogd as a reporting user that does cronjobs or > something. That way the > access they both have is restricted. Which cannot be > done if you have > users named the same (pflogd both). > > Another thing that i personally think is that these > are also understandable > > _daemon => hey a daemon process that perhaps needs > to be kicked since > it's suckedup all CPU (memory leak's, something > else?) > daemon => hey a bogus username that sucks up 99% of > the CPU running eh > dnetc (for example) > > But then again, it remains my personall opinion, > again, i am PRO _daemon > names hi there when I said "our" becuase we were having a discusion about it, here at our local university, we saw that it saves work to mlaier and we also noticed the why of the _. anyway a firewall is most likely to not have a lot of users so finding conflicting user should be pretty easy. it's no biggie anyway :) PS: oh and sorry I wasnt following freebsd-current@freebsd.org until today. and I know I should have searched on the mailling lists db. my bad Jorge _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com
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