On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 04:59:23PM +0000, Alexander Bisogiannis wrote: > Hi all, > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237 > > Apologies for asking here, but since the discussion is locked in Github I > thought to ask here. > > This was marked as "not a bug", but in later comments the wording suggests > that systemd behaviour will change No, there's nothing to suggest that in the comments. It *might* change, but the comments do not say that.
> and if the username in a unit does not > exist systemd will ignore the unit, instead of running it as root. > > My question is: > > Is this a bug with a BZ against rhel/centos7 (as my understanding is that > this affects EL7 too)? > > If there is no BZ and based on the wording of the second to last comment > by poettering, will this be fixed/changed in a future update? > > I personally see this as a security issue and thus as a bug. If you need root permissions to create a unit, then it's not a security issue. An annoyance at most. (You do know that you're not supposed to copy&paste random stuff from the internet as root, right?) > Again, apologies for asking here, but I cannot comment in the github > discussion due to the thread being locked to maintainers only. Yes, it's locked because of uninformative comments. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel