[systemd-devel] sysusers and login.defs checks

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 21.07.14 04:16, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> > 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.
> I agree. Not reading /etc/login.defs makes the tool troublesome for
> existing installations.
> 
> I've experienced a related problem, where coredumps would not be
> visible for my user on a Fedora machine which has been upgraded over
> many versions.  It turns out that the user had uid 500 or something
> like that, and systemd-coredump treated the account as as a system
> account.

Sure, the transition will create problems, but it necessarily will. 

What matters really is that we don't allow things that we shouldn't
allow, but if things are not allowed that should be allowed, then that's
much less problematic, but simply a negative cosnequence of the
transition...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat