[systemd-devel] systemd (user) and (sd-pam) (user) processes in login shell

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Dec 22 17:48:19 PST 2015



Am 23.12.2015 um 01:45 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Tue, 22.12.15 01:36, Kai Krakow (hurikhan77 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Am Tue, 8 Dec 2015 01:36:01 +0200
>> schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> What uid does "oracle" have – is it within the system account range
>>> (usually 1–999) or user account (1000–)? I wonder if it's the latter,
>>> which would mean systemd-logind would clean up various things like
>>> IPC on logout... (see logind.conf)
>>
>> Is this hard-coded in systemd (uid 0..999 and 1000+) or is it read from
>> login.defs?
>
> We do not read login.defs

which is a mistake

> It's a compile-time setting (configure
> --with-system-uid-max=). The distros choose the right cutoff, not the
> admins

there are setups much older than systemd existed and fedora (as example) 
changed from 500 to 100 - hence a compile time setting is wrong by 
design when there was a config file over many years

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