Creating system users and system groups

[Till Kamppeter]

On 02/02/2017 08:49 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
> Our general thinking is that we will maintain a standard list of those,
> and approve user creation for specific snaps. Would you be willing to go
> with _avahi and _lp and _lpadmin? Backward-looking names might get
> grandfathered, but we'd prefer newer software to use a qualifier like _
> to disambiguate such system users from end users.
>
> Mark

I think that avahi-daemon and CUPS are well-established operating system 
components, so that we can add the user "avahi" and the groups "avahi" 
and "lpadmin" to the standard range of Ubuntu Core. Group and user "lp" 
are already in the standard range.

    Till