[systemd-devel] sysusers and login.defs checks

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Reindl Harald at 20/07/14 22:52 did gyre and gimble:
> 
> Am 20.07.2014 23:38, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
>> '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...
> 
> why is it not readable?

No idea. Probably some pseudo "security" related reason dating back many
years.

Perms here are:
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow

I can't really think of any reason as to why this would genuinely help,
but then I can't think why a regular user.

Not a big deal in this case really tho' - I think the original argument
still stands.

Col

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