On 01/15/2018 01:28 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 11:04:32AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> >> >> On 01/10/2018 05:46 AM, Jan Kurik wrote: >>> = System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user = >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RenameNobodyUser >> A nit... The proposed rename looks like: >> nobody:x:65534:65534:Kernel Overflow User:/:/sbin/nologin >> >> Now that this is going to be used for NFS, should the user information >> field be more generic? >> >> Because with NFS is not an overflow its a id mapping. Maybe just 'Kernel User'? >> >> Again... just an incredibly small nit! ;-) > Hmm, good point. Maybe "Kernel Unmappable User" ? > nss-systemd in it's code currently uses "User Nobody", but that > doesn't explain anything, and I think that both pieces of > information are important to convey: that it is a kernel > concept, and that it is for overflow/unmapped users that are > hence anonymous. "Kernel Unmappable User" works... IMHO. steved. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
