Re: "user/group _pflogd:_pflogd" what's with the _ ?

From: Jorge Mario G. (murcielako_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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To: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>

    > 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

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