New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Thu Jul 10 16:44:29 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 17:18 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> We /do/ plan on the syncing anyway, because some admins are
> still used to vipw their passwd databases and there are legacy scripts
> around, but still --  could we, when the SSSD interface is available,
> call out from systemd-sysusers to the SSSD, with some fallback for
> cases where SSSD is not running?

Jakub,
I think we can use inotify on /etc/passwd and friends and reread if
someone modifies the file.
The important thing is that people don't try to invent new storage
schemes and additional nsswitch modules and files for the system users.

Simo.

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