[systemd-devel] systemd-sysusers and gshadow

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 07.07.14 13:16, Leonid Isaev (lisaev at umail.iu.edu) wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Mon, 07.07.14 11:08, Leonid Isaev (lisaev at umail.iu.edu) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 	Thanks for the explanation...
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:26:03PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > > I wasn#t aware of grpck, and quite frankly  don't think it makes much
> > > > sense, what the tool is doing.
> > > 
> > > Why? Checking syntax can never hurt...
> > 
> > Well, I am not opposed to that. I am just saying that otherwise the
> > current logic so nicely considers an account with a missing counterpart
> > in /etc/shadow disabled with no way to log in, which is exactly what we
> > want here. However, grpck tool breaks that...
> 
> Ah, right. So you mean grpck _and_ pwck.
> 
> Is this a new systemd-only thinking, or is it something to be taken to the
> shadow upstream (because {grp,pw}ck is provided by shadow)?

Well, I do like the behaviour of things when an entry is missing. But
then again, I figure this is something to fix in systemd, and make
systemd create the entry in the shadow file, too.

Added to TODO list.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat