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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:45:34 -0700
From:      "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?'=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no>, "'Brooks Davis'" <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd
Message-ID:  <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY>
In-Reply-To: <86u0kbdwgr.fsf@xps.des.no>

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From: Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav
> Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Add _dhcp user/group as required by the OpenBSD dhclient.
>=20
> 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.





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