| Summary: | user.eclass: support 'sysusers.d' | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Elias Probst <mail> |
| Component: | Eclasses | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | fedora.dm0, leho, mgorny, sam, systemd |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d.html | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702624 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 53269 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
That's an interesting idea.
The first question that comes to mind would be how to handle the id assignment. We seem to have a few options. From the manual:
> For u and g the numeric 32bit UID or GID of the user/group. Do not use IDs 65535 or 4294967295, as they have special placeholder meanings. Specify "-" for automatic UID/GID allocation for the user or group. Alternatively, specify an absolute path in the file system. In this case the UID/GID is read from the path's owner/group. This is useful to create users whose UID/GID match the owners of pre-existing files (such as SUID or SGID binaries).
In summary:
- Specify a number for a static uid/gid.
- Specify a hyphen for a random uid/gid.
- Specify a path to grab the uid/gid from an existing file.
I think this is done? commit 0d096cb68e86dd5faa7da8cf68a18e4e29bc9081 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Dec 13 17:32:09 2019 +0100 acct-*.eclass: Create sysusers.d files Thanks to David Michael for the initial patch and upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> |
I'd like to see support for systemd's "sysusers.d" [1] in user.eclass. This would allow straightforward user creation in stateless systems [2] which are built using Gentoo/binpkgs. This would basically just mean, that 'enew{user,group}' would drop a per-package file into /usr/lib/sysusers.d/, e.g. /usr/lib/sysusers.d/www-servers_apache-2.4.12.conf: u apache 81 "Apache httpd" /var/www [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d.html [2] http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html