Re: [JPackage-discuss] User jonas

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 16 septembre 2004 à 09:45 +0200, Fernando Nasser a écrit :
>  Hi,
>  
>  This is indeed a good point.  I will take it to the jonas community.
>  
>  In the meanwhile, please note that the ascii display name of users and groups is 
>  irrelevant.  At the inner level Unix is all about numbers.  Just rename your 
>  group and user from jonas to jonasrun (or something elese you like) and all will 
>  be well (as long as you don't change the numbers)  --  at least until you try 
>  and update...
>  
>  It is possible that you run into problems when updating the RPM., as the RPM 
>  will try and install a user called jonas again.  If this change is accepted 
>  upstream, then I will add mechanisms for backward compatibility in the RPM scripts.
However the problem also exists for amanda for example so before
changing jonas a (semi) official RH/Suse/Mdk policy on allowed system
user names would be nice (CC-ing fedora-devel)

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot