New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 10.07.14 08:17, Oron Peled (oron at actcom.co.il) wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

The "gdm" user also kinda needs a home directory. I figure we should add
a figth column to sysusers.d fragments, that allows setting the home
directory. It's on the TODO list now.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat