New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

[Oron Peled]

A non-API related question...

On Thursday 10 July 2014 01:49:41 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Please understand that we are not duplicating "adduser" here. Already in
> the name of the tool we wanted to make clear thtat this is abotu system
> users, nothing else. The file format we defined has been reduced to the
> minimum possible, in order to make it difficult for people to use it for
> anything else than this.

There are cases where a home directory of system users carry some semantics.

Two examples from the top of my head:
 * Some tftpd implementations use it as the base path (and chroot into it)
 * Some anonymous ftpd implementation have similar use (chroot into ~ftp)

So I assume *all* of these cases should be replaced by systemd explicit
settings -- e.g: WorkingDirectory, RootDirectory in the unit file.

Generally, I prefer the explicit systemd settings over home directory
with "magical" effects, but I wonder if anyone is aware of existing
system users which carry more complex semantics.

Thanks,

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