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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Peter Postma wrote:
>> The idea is to prefix new system-users/groups with an _, so that they are
>> in their own namespace.
>
> I think we went through all this not too long ago (I forgot on
> which mailing list),

It was started on this list in September of last year:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2004/09/10/0000.html

> but IIRC there was no real enthusiasm to use _-prefixed
> user/groups.
>
> I think you should change it to "pflogd" for consistency with the
> rest of NetBSD.

Though there were several people who expressed this same opinion,
I think the consensus (in a IETF-esque "rough consensus" sense
... not exactly enthusiasm and certainly not unanimity) was to
use the _-prefix for new system accounts, but not to change the
existing ones.

I personally don't have much of an opinion on it one way or the
other, but that's what I recall from the discussion (and was
expecting), and that's still my sense when I re-read the thread.

My 2c,
Chris
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