Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:47:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no>, 'Brooks Davis' <brooks@FreeBSD.ORG>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20050606214745.GA7450@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> References: <86u0kbdwgr.fsf@xps.des.no> <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY>
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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... -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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