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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:41:14 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=  <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd
Message-ID:  <p06210244beca725ded62@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20050606211659.GA24690@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <200506062019.j56KJufr006546@repoman.freebsd.org> <86u0kbdwgr.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050606211659.GA24690@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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At 2:16 PM -0700 6/6/05, Brooks Davis wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:08:52PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>>  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?
>
>Honestly, I don't know.  I'm not all that thrilled by them, but
>we've already got _pflogd so I figured I'd follow suit to avoid a
>gratuitous diff.  It's a two line change in dhclient if people
>would rather use dhcp instead of _dhcp.

Probably to avoid conflicts with any sites which already have
one of those userid's in use.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =3D   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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