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Re: amanda: expressing defaults again in Makefile?



On 1/3/09 22:06, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:10:50PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>> Stupid question, why is this user called backup at all? I think the
>> Separate issue; I was going to change it to 'amanda'.
> 
> Well, that is a more stupid default.
> For instance my sister is 'Amanda', and that could easily be her username!
> 
>       David
> 

Sorry for dragging this thread further off subject . . .

Wasn't there talk a little while ago about prefixing pkgsrc created user
names and group names so they could be easily identified from
system/user accounts ?

adrian.


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