[systemd-devel] systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: ... Unknown user '1019'

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

I'm having a problem created by systemd: A temporary directory is to be created that is owned by a user found in LDAP.
However as all temporary directories are created way before networking is available, I cannot user the user name, nor can systemd delay creating that directory after networking/LDAP is available.
So I tried specifying the numeric UID/GID instead, but contrary to the manual page, it does not work:

systemd-tmpfiles[19305]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nrpe.conf:1] Unknown user '1019'.

The only line in file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nrpe.conf is:
d /run/nrpe 0755 1019 nagios

>From the manual page:
   UID, GID
       The user and group to use for this file or directory. This may either be a numeric user/group ID or a
       user or group name. If omitted or when set to "-", the default 0 (root) is used. For z and Z lines, when
...

Any clever ideas?
My guess is to split creating all the temporary files at early boott time into multiple phases so that name service can be used for use rresolution. If the service needs the name resolution, the temporary directory for the service can be delayes just before the service will be started...

Regards,
Ulrich