940565 – x11-misc/sddm installs sysusers.d file which conflicts with acct-user/sddm

Bug 940565 - x11-misc/sddm installs sysusers.d file which conflicts with acct-user/sddm

Summary: x11-misc/sddm installs sysusers.d file which conflicts with acct-user/sddm

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	LxQt maintainers

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Reported:	2024-09-30 19:08 UTC by Mike Gilbert
Modified:	2024-09-30 19:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2024-09-30 19:08:42 UTC

Running systemd-sysusers emits this warning:

> % sudo systemd-sysusers --dry-run
> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf:2: Conflict with earlier configuration for user 'sddm' in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/acct-user-sddm.conf:1, ignoring line.

> % equery l sddm
>  * Searching for sddm ...
> [IP-] [  ] x11-misc/sddm-0.21.0_p20240723-r10:0

> % cat /usr/lib/sysusers.d/acct-user-sddm.conf
> u       sddm    219:sddm        A\ user\ for\ x11-misc/sddm     /var/lib/sddm   /sbin/nologin
> m       sddm    video

> % cat /usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf
> #Type Name ID GECOS                  Home directory Shell
> u     sddm -  "SDDM Greeter Account" /var/lib/sddm   -

It would probably make sense to just delete /usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf.