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.
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