[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v229

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.02.2016 um 22:19 schrieb Dave Reisner:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> I just tagged the v229 release of systemd. Enjoy!
>>
>> CHANGES WITH 229:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>          * When the stacktrace is extracted from processes of system users, this
>>            is now done as "systemd-coredump" user, in order to sandbox this
>>            potentially security sensitive parsing operation. (Note that when
>>            processing coredumps of normal users this is done under the user ID
>>            of process that crashed, as before.) Packagers should take notice
>>            that it is now necessary to create the "systemd-coredump" system user
>>            and group at package installation time.
>>
>
> Why is it left to downstream to create this user? What makes it
> different from the other 4 users which systemd already creates?

systemd don't create any user. nowhere, rpm-scritrs downstream does


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