Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:29:44 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, 'Brooks Davis' <brooks@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20050609162944.GB14221@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <p06210257bece101be886@[128.113.24.47]> References: <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> <86slzvcfb0.fsf@xps.des.no> <p06210257bece101be886@[128.113.24.47]>
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--ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:40:09AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:04 AM +0200 6/7/05, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > >"Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> writes: > >> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > >> > 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. > > > >It's not a FreeBSD convention. If the underscore serves no other > >purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go. >=20 > I see no reason to make our dhcp and pf gratuitously different. > It isn't like it *hurts* anything to use the leading underscores > in names. Besides, didn't we already go through this with the > original import of 'pf', and at the time the consensus seemed > to be to go with the _pflogd. >=20 > See revision 1.37 of src/etc/master.passwd : >=20 > [- Wed Jun 23 01:32:28 2004 UTC (11 months, 2 weeks ago) by mlaier -] >=20 > Add "privsep" user/group _pflogd:_pflogd (64:64) to make pflogd(8) > work again. This user/group is not required for install* targets, > hence do not add them to CHECK_UIDS/CHECK_GIDS in Makefile.inc1 > (no need to annoy people). >=20 > Discussed-on: -current >=20 > The parts I'm interested in are "11 months 2 weeks ago", and > "Discussed-on: -current". Precisely. This bikeshed has already been built. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCqG54ocfcwTS3JF8RAjquAKC+Fqd4Qok5ZmEq6DrqQ2TLexbPUQCeNsUX w2yrlW+8CR8ecKVvMnTK8tU= =OEgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK--
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