[systemd-devel] systemd-sysusers

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.02.2018 um 10:47 schrieb Michael Chapman:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 05.02.2018 um 06:56 schrieb Michael Chapman:
>>>  On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>>>>  It appears systemd-sysusers does not create home directories. On the
>>>>  other hand, it picks (largely unpredictable) UIDs from a range.
>>>>
>>>>  So I have to run systemd-sysusers, and after that, find the UID of the
>>>>  user and chown the home directory? Or is there the equivalent of the
>>>>  “useradd -m” flag somewhere that I’m just not seeing?
>>>
>>>  systemd-sysusers is, as the name suggests, really for _system_ 
>>> users, and
>>>  often those kinds of users don't have ordinary home directories -- that
>>>  is, ones the user can actually write to.
>>>
>>>  However, systemd-sysusers.service is ordered before
>>>  systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service at boot, so if you need to create a 
>>> system
>>>  user's home directory and ensure its ownership is correct, you could 
>>> use a
>>>  corresponding tmpfiles.d fragment to do so.
>>
>> i hope you meant systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service is ordered before 
>> systemd-sysusers.service and you simply talked about "Before=" which 
>> in fact means ordered after
> 
> Sorry, I cannot work out what you are saying.
> 
> Take a look at the unit files as shipped in systemd. 
> systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service is ordered After=systemd-sysusers.service 
> (which is, as far as I can tell, equivalent to what I said before). It 
> needs to be that way around for a tmpfiles.d fragment to be able to 
> reference a user created by systemd-sysusers.

buffer overflow - coffee missing - sorry