Bug#988499: systemd: New sgx group looks overly generic and prone to collision

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Guillem

Am 14.05.21 um 11:17 schrieb Guillem Jover:
> 
> The version in experimental introduced a new system group called sgx
> which has an overly generic name with the potential to collide with
> user and group names, say their initials. Could it be rename to use
> the system name convention of prefixing it with «_»?

I fear, that unfortunately this ship has sailed when it comes to naming 
conventions. While I like the "_" prefix (e.g. much better then 
Debian-), it's unfortunately not commonly used.
None of the groups defined in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/basic.conf use it.
"sgx" is supposed to be used in the same way as "audio", "video", 
"kmem", "render" afaiu, none of those use the "_" prefix.

That said, you might try to raise this upstream.
I won't, I already had my share of confrontation on this issue, see 
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18944
So I'm probably not the best person to bring this up again.

Regards,
Michael

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