On 5/21/20 10:29 PM, karx via aur-general wrote: > Hey, > > An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user > to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be > created on the installer's system when they install the package?
Use sysusers.d(5) to install a description of the user you need. systemd comes with a pacman hook to create users based on sysusers.d dropins (and for non-systemd distros using e.g. OpenRC, there are reimplementations like opensysusers, because this is generally portable and beneficial to use). You can usually specify the "-" placeholder instead of a reserved, hardocded uid, and have one automatically assigned. This is preferable whenever possible. You can check the output of $ pkgfile -vr '/usr/lib/sysusers.d/.*\.conf' to see which packages in the repositories use sysusers.d files, and see how they are using it for inspiration. (Or see which packages on your system provide files in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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