#584810 Choosing a saner name for _lldpd ?

Package:
lldpd
Source:
lldpd
Description:
implementation of IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP)
Submitter:
Fabrice Lorrain
Date:
2010-06-06 20:51:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#584810#5
Date:
2010-06-06 19:22:29 UTC
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Hello,

The package is creating and using a user & group _lldpd for running the
daemon. There is nothing wronk with it, but it's a bit uncommon/weird
on a Debian system (didn't find anything in the policy on the subject though).

Would you mind renaming it to something more "classical" (for ex. lldp or lldpd)
at least for the debian package ?

Thanks.

@+,
	Fab
#584810#10
Date:
2010-06-06 20:47:48 UTC
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To:
tags 584810 + wontfix
thanks

OoO En ce début de soirée  du dimanche 06 juin 2010, vers 21:22, Fabrice
Lorrain <Fabrice.Lorrain@free.fr> disait :

There is  nothing in  the policy about  this. Using a  username starting
with underscore is the common way to do things on OpenBSD which features
a lot of  privilege separated daemons. This avoids  any collision with a
real username.

I don't really see what is inconvenient with this username and migrating
to another username is difficult. I don't think this will change.