[systemd-devel] [PATCH] TODO: passwd.d, group.d

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:45:32AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > 1) Leave only root in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> 
> Not commenting on the overall idea, but if you are going to do
> something like this, at least allow the the files not to exist at all,
> and in this case a default entry for the root user to be assumed.

Sure, seems easy enough to make that entry synthetic as part of the PAM
module.

- Josh Triplett