On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:01:30AM -0500, Steven Pritchard wrote: > I have to agree. I can't think of a single reason why it would matter > (for example) what UID the openvpn user is on any system. It's just > an unprivileged user that openvpn can be configured to run as (after > starting as root). I could use "nobody", but, well, that seems to be > bad form these days. That's all well and good until the user owns files. > In that case, there's NIS/NIS+/LDAP/whatever, and it is up to the > sysadmin to do any extra work necessary to integrate the package into > their environment. In the case of my openvpn package, if "useradd -r" > does the right thing, then the problem is solved. If not, the > sysadmin can just add an openvpn user before installing the package. Why should the *default* be "you have to do some extra work"? The standard case should be just that -- standard. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
