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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Application Servers Installation and Users Post 302183649 by era on Wednesday 9th of April 2008 03:00:59 PM
Old 04-09-2008
Debian policy call these "system users" but there's not much on the topic in there. Debian Policy Manual - The Operating System

AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts - Debian Wiki also has some discussion from a Debian perspective.

I'm not saying Debian is necessarily the best role model but they tend to have documentation for these kinds of things. Turns out even they don't have much.

I believe the recommendation for e.g. Apache is actually to have two different accounts, where www-data owns the actual files served by the application, and apache (I guess) is the account which runs the daemon. The reasoning is that if the daemon is broken into, you have partitioned the ownerships so that it can't damage the files (it only need to read them to serve them, after all).
 

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sgmgr(1M)																 sgmgr(1M)

NAME
sgmgr - Serviceguard Manager SYNOPSIS
filename ] | COMserver username password cluster_name ...]] COMserver2 Remarks Serviceguard Manager is the graphical user interface for Serviceguard or Serviceguard Extension for RAC software, Version A.11.12 or later, Serviceguard products are not included in the standard HP-UX operating system. DESCRIPTION
The command starts Serviceguard Manager, the graphical user interface for Serviceguard clusters. Serviceguard Manager can be installed on HP-UX, Linux, or Windows. Serviceguard Manager can be used to view saved data files of a single cluster, or to see running clusters. To see the "live" cluster map, Serviceguard Manager connects to a Serviceguard node on the same subnet as those clusters, specifically to a part of Serviceguard called the Cluster Object Manager (COM). Options supports the options listed below. No options are required. If any option is not specified, the user will be prompted to supply it after the interface opens. Open a previously saved or example object data file. The file will have the .sgm extension. It can display only one cluster. This option cannot be used with any other options. Specify the Serviceguard node that will be the server. This node's COM will query cluster objects running on its subnets, and will report their status and configuration. Servers with Serviceguard Version A.11.12 or later can monitor clusters. Servers with Ser- viceguard Version A.11.14 or later can also perform administrative actions. Servers with Version A.11.16 or later can also configure clusters. To specify multiple sessions, repeat the -s option. The user login name for the COMserver node. Valid only if COMserver is specified. The user password on the COMserver node. Valid only if username is specified. In creating the map, the COMserver will include the cluster where it is a member. In creating the map, the COMserver will report information about the specified cluster_name(s). Specify clusters with the following cluster software installed: MC/Serviceguard Version A.10.10 or later, MC/LockManager Version A.11.02 or later, Serviceguard OPS or Extension for RAC Version A.11.08 or later, and all versions of MetroClusters and ContinentalClusters. To see several clusters, repeat the -c option. If you specify this unused nodes option all COMservers will report information about nodes that have Serviceguard installed, but are not currently configured in any cluster. To connect to another COMserver for another session, repeat the -s options. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
See documents at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha including: Managing Serviceguard. Configuring OPS Clusters with Serviceguard OPS Edition. Using Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Cluster (RAC). Series 700 or 800 Works with Optional Serviceguard or Serviceguard Extension for RAC Software sgmgr(1M)
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