[systemd-devel] [PATCH] sysusers: allow overrides in /etc and /run

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/10/2014 12:51 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> An administrator might want to block a certain sysusers config file from
> being executed, e.g. to block the creation of a certain user.
> ---
>   src/sysusers/sysusers.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/sysusers/sysusers.c b/src/sysusers/sysusers.c
> index 129493a1e7..68c552d24a 100644
> --- a/src/sysusers/sysusers.c
> +++ b/src/sysusers/sysusers.c
> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ typedef struct Item {
>   static char *arg_root = NULL;
>   
>   static const char conf_file_dirs[] =
> +        "/etc/sysusers.d\0"
> +        "/run/sysusers.d\0"
>           "/usr/local/lib/sysusers.d\0"
>           "/usr/lib/sysusers.d\0"
>   #ifdef HAVE_SPLIT_USR

How does this handle multiple users and if I as an administrator I 
wanted to block some users from being created I simply would not have 
installed the component that created him in the first place no?

JBG