package: systemd
version: 236-3
Dear systemd team,
please enable the systemd-sysuser.service unit. The rational is that
users who want to use this inside their containers/deployments can do
so. Attached is a (trivial) patch to enable the unit. It is also
documented widely and the fact that it does not work on Debian (and
Ubuntu) is slightly surprising.
There is no downside (AFAICS), the unit is conditiional on
ConditionNeedsUpdate=/etc so it will never run on default Debian
systems.
I also looked into providing debian specific basic.conf that would
re-generate the base-passwd passwd.master (and group) file. However it
looks like the systemd-sysusers file format is not expressive enough
for this (which is slightly unfortunate). I.e. we have entries like
sync:*:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
which cannot be represented because you cannot specify a different
primary gid in the sysusers file (or a login shell). So extra work is
required for this but (personally) I would love to this is.
Thanks for your consideration!
Michael
>From 69af77164ce2eb9bdddfce1c397b9b0c1ae7da55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Vogt <m...@ubuntu.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:55:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Enable sysusers service units
This allows users who want to use /usr/lib/sysusers.d/* to use
it together with an empty /etc. Note that this PR does not ship
any sysuser.d files. It is up to the user to provide those.
---
debian/rules | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0389867ec..0cc4b85ec 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ override_dh_install:
find debian/install/*/etc/systemd/system/ -type l -delete
# FIXME: generate proper sysusers.d/basic.conf for Debian, and add autopkgtest
rm -rf debian/install/*/usr/lib/sysusers.d/*
- rm -f debian/install/*/lib/systemd/system/*sysusers*.service debian/install/*/lib/systemd/system/*/*sysusers*.service
ifeq (, $(filter noudeb, $(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))
dh_install -pudev-udeb -plibudev1-udeb --sourcedir=debian/install/udeb
endif
--
2.14.1
