[Starlingx-discuss] Re-branding wrsroot proposal

Perez Carranza, Jose jose.perez.carranza at intel.com
Mon May 6 21:43:26 UTC 2019


What about 'deployadmin' ? 

Regards,
José

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Somerville [mailto:jim.somerville at windriver.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 4:08 PM
> To: Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com>; Wensley, Barton
> <Barton.Wensley at windriver.com>
> Cc: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>; starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] Re-branding wrsroot proposal
> 
> 
> 
> On 2019-05-06 2:32 p.m., Dean Troyer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:06 PM Wensley, Barton
> > <Barton.Wensley at windriver.com> wrote:
> >> I guess I'm less concerned about using stx or starlingx than others. Obviously
> "wrs" is bad since it is tied to a company. But it seems common practice to use
> the project name for the default user (think nova, neutron, glance, etc...).
> >
> > The only reason I'd be reluctant to include a project identifier is
> > because those things can change and this is just painful enough to not
> > want to do again.
> >
> > 'admin' has other uses at the OS level, we need to be clear enough to
> > not cause confusion there.  Unless it has other similar uses
> > 'sysadmin' is the best I have heard and I do not have a better
> > suggestion.
> 
> Just to be devil's advocate here, sysadmin could easily already be in use on a
> future port of this stuff to another platform.
> 
>  From a security standpoint, it would be on an easily guessed list of userids for
> black hat penetration testing.
> 
> It also shows up on the Big Username Blacklist.
> 
> https://github.com/marteinn/The-Big-Username-
> Blacklist/blob/master/list_raw.txt
> 
> -Jim
> 
> >
> > dt
> >
> > Unless we want to use 'bikeshed' :)
> >
> 
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