New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:19:19AM -0700, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi, for Atomic I'd like to investigate the new systemd-sysusers, so I
> wrote up a Change:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SystemdSysusers
> 
> Note: for Fedora 22.
> 
> The main motivation for me is it would allow Atomic to not be a Remix
> due to the not-in-Fedora shadow-utils patch[1]  Further, it would
> potentially allow us to migrate away from /usr/lib/passwd and
> nss-altfiles which would be really nice.  Though I'm still exploring
> that.
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098304

Colin, we're _really_ hoping to make Atomic a flagship feature for Fedora
Cloud in F21. If I work on getting the shadow-utils patch landed, does that
_conflict_ with the new approach? (And, are there any other blockers which
would make this not a possibility?)


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader