On 20/08/2014 20:25, Dave Reisner wrote: > For packagers: > - systemd-sysusers is now a reasonable thing as it now reads and writes > to /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow. This means that we can simplify the > filesystem package immensely, and packages which want to ship their > own runtime users can switch to this as well. Note that new IDs are > allocated semi-arbitrarily starting from 999 and counting down. Please > be aware of the implications of using this if your package ships files > owned by the user you're going to create! There's still no way of > removing users via sysusers.d, but I think this is fine (Fedora > actually never removes users or groups). I'm enthused by this feature and systemd-sysusers can offer a more standard way for managing system users across distro. Nevertheless, It would be nice if we do not fall into the shortcut of not removing users bound to a package when we remove it. That avoid manual removing and I don't see a drawback for doing this.
Do you know why they don't implement the same logic (--create, --clean) as systemd-tmpfiles in systemd-sysusers? -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A
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