Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:04:46 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Wilko Bulte'" <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <002101c56ae3$c378ee10$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> In-Reply-To: <20050606214745.GA7450@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wb@freebie.xs4all.nl] > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:45:34PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote.. > > From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav > > > 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? > > > > It's a convention used for system UIDs to prevent namespace collisions with > > user accounts. > > Then it is not really all to consistently used (politely speaking) > looking at what by default lives in /etc/passwd as system UIDs... If you look at the FreeBSD /etc/passwd, sure, but this is an OpenBSD convention. Looking at the OpenBSD src/etc/master.passwd[1], it's very consistently used, with the few system UIDs not starting with an underscore being either legacy names or tied to a third-party package (sendmail, BIND, popa3d). [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/master.passwd <OT, EOT or off-list, thanks>
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