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Re: tcpdump: drop privileges by default?



On Thu Sep 10 2009 at 14:54:03 +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> PS. This would be better off in netbsd-users@, but I've always wondered what
> is the logic behind pseudo-users prefixed with an underscore and those
> without such prefix?

Historic.  At a few years ago someone decided it would be good to
prefix pseudo-users, but the existing ones could of course not be
changed anymore.


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