On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Broderick Wood enlightened us:
> My resistance comes from the fact that we have been using AMANDA for about 
> 2 years whereas we have had a user called "amanda" for about 15 years...
> 
> I also don't want to do a source build as we are maintaining about 500+ 
> machines in varying state of OS version/patch/etc...
> 
> We use CfEngine to push out our localizations so I can fairly easily push a 
> RPM to a machine and have been doing so which works fine except for TAR 
> backups which is where I run into the hard-coded problem.
> 
> 
> 
> So I am building a custom RPM and we'll see how that goes...  There goes 
> the easy maintenance of YUM and such for updating it...
> 

One of the suggestions from a *BSD person was to follow the same convention
of naming system accounts _username instead of username, so that when Amanda
Smith has an account on your system as amanda, you don't collide. I believe
that's in a bugzilla on redhat's site, you might voice your opinion there if
that is something you'd be interested in.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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