<html><head></head><body><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>It appears that the nobody user/group are not created by systemd-sysusers, despite its definition in sysusers.d/basic.conf.</div><div>I guess nss_systemd is always providing answers for nobody user/group which mislead systemd-sysusers.</div><div><br></div><div># grep nobody /etc/passwd; echo $?</div><div>1</div><div># getent passwd nobody</div><div>nobody:*:65534:65534:User Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin</div><div># SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-sysusers /usr/lib/sysusers.d/basic.conf</div><div>Group nobody already exists.</div><div>User nobody already exists.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess the issue is the same for root user.</div><div>For reference, this come from this bug report: <a href="https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55589">https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55589</a></div><div><br></div><div>A side effect, may segfault sshd. See: <a href="https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55570">https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55570</a></div><div><br></div><div>I tend to think that systemd-users should be able to start working with and empty passwd/group.</div><div>What do you think is the correct way to fix these two? </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><span><div>Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer</div></span></div></body></html>