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Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:02:55PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> It would be a good idea to compile a list of such packages, and give a
> heads-up to all maintainers before the switch happens.  The packages that

It would be good if the maintainers would *read* this list so they know
what's going on, too.

> definitely have this problem are openssh, inetutils, and apache, and I'm
> most likely missing some.

openssh and inetutils both have no problem with that.  Other servers
doing user switching I can think of are apache, cron, postgresql, proftpd
and xinetd.

Corinna

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