From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 16:29:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE2316A41C; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:29:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc4-cdif3-6-1-cust116.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.23.41.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D3D43D48; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:29:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1DgPua-000Oc1-Hp; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:29:44 +0100 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:29:44 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20050609162944.GB14221@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Garance A Drosihn , Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav , Darren Pilgrim , 'Brooks Davis' , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <001801c56ae1$15d05d90$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> <86slzvcfb0.fsf@xps.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: Darren Pilgrim , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav , 'Brooks Davis' Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:29:49 -0000 --ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:40:09AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:04 AM +0200 6/7/05, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > >"Darren Pilgrim" writes: > >> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav writes: > >> > 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. > > > >It's not a FreeBSD convention. If the underscore serves no other > >purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go. >=20 > I see no reason to make our dhcp and pf gratuitously different. > It isn't like it *hurts* anything to use the leading underscores > in names. Besides, didn't we already go through this with the > original import of 'pf', and at the time the consensus seemed > to be to go with the _pflogd. >=20 > See revision 1.37 of src/etc/master.passwd : >=20 > [- Wed Jun 23 01:32:28 2004 UTC (11 months, 2 weeks ago) by mlaier -] >=20 > Add "privsep" user/group _pflogd:_pflogd (64:64) to make pflogd(8) > work again. This user/group is not required for install* targets, > hence do not add them to CHECK_UIDS/CHECK_GIDS in Makefile.inc1 > (no need to annoy people). >=20 > Discussed-on: -current >=20 > The parts I'm interested in are "11 months 2 weeks ago", and > "Discussed-on: -current". Precisely. This bikeshed has already been built. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCqG54ocfcwTS3JF8RAjquAKC+Fqd4Qok5ZmEq6DrqQ2TLexbPUQCeNsUX w2yrlW+8CR8ecKVvMnTK8tU= =OEgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZXnrAYM8PVd0GhSK--