[systemd-devel] sysusers and login.defs checks

Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Sun Jul 20 14:38:10 PDT 2014


'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 20/07/14 22:31 did gyre and gimble:
> Those defaults could be set from a compile time check of
> login.defs too.

FWIW, at least here, /etc/login.defs is not readable by regular users so
any build system that builds as non-root won't even get those defaults
anyway, so that's probably another argument for runtime checks too...

Col

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