cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd

Darren Pilgrim dmp at bitfreak.org
Mon Jun 6 21:45:50 GMT 2005


From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Add _dhcp user/group as required by the OpenBSD dhclient.
> 
> 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.




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