Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 06:59:53 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation Message-ID: <4BF8C459.6030505@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <A8D32BA4-70D5-48DC-B992-8B093BD97774@FreeBSD.org> References: <AANLkTindTvyrfPRj_cGWUC3LXWI63bGN5azaXo_xYRVu@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikNB0LbKG1qtL90F-thxeCvvSqnBxOCCDSucVS6@mail.gmail.com> <20100522005313.26dcfbdb@gumby.homeunix.com> <AANLkTim9NqCGi_iPMuoivw0z2bzEXHkt39VPk6c7aHyt@mail.gmail.com> <4BF787E2.9010907@dataix.net> <20100522120815.063975ae@gumby.homeunix.com> <4BF7C6EE.3010001@dataix.net> <20100522134212.3d5447a8@gumby.homeunix.com> <4BF7FB7D.1010501@dataix.net> <20100522235425.1ab2c504@gumby.homeunix.com> <86aarr8q0m.fsf@gmail.com> <A8D32BA4-70D5-48DC-B992-8B093BD97774@FreeBSD.org>
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On 23/05/2010 02:50:00, Ade Lovett wrote:
>
> On May 22, 2010, at 16:39 , Anonymous wrote:
>>
>> Such unused entries in passwd add clutter. It in turn makes managing
>> users more complex. You have to remember which users are created by you
>> and which ones are created by ports.
>
> Irrespective of the UID/GID stuff mentioned elsewhere, merely go
> through the ports tree and add (or append) "(created by ports)" to the
> GECOS field of any such created users.
OpenBSD has a convention that all system user accounts start with a '_'
character. There are a few accounts in UIDs that have adopted that, but
no great stampede to adopt the idea despite most people agreeing with it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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