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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EID database and entries getting to baselayout
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:12:40
Message-Id: 200401290412.37773.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EID database and entries getting to baselayout by Drake Wyrm
1 On Thursday 29 January 2004 01:25, Drake Wyrm wrote:
2 > Agreed. Daemons are like users without bodies. They need unique names. I
3 > can see undesired consequences of, for example, forcing every server
4 > package in net-ftp to run as the user 'ftp'. If you really want to get
5 > freaky with the idea though, the usernames assigned to daemons should
6 > be locally configurable. Think this one is worthy of a GLEP?
7
8 it is, and i'm supposed to be writing it, but i've been slacking
9
10 i'll see what i can put together this weekend
11 -mike
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