cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Jun 6 22:05:02 GMT 2005


"Darren Pilgrim" <dmp at bitfreak.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> 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.

DES
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