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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] systemd 216: add system user factory files to CONFFILES
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On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 09:39 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 29 sep. 2014, om 22:59 heeft Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014, at 03:22 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > 
> >> +                ${libdir}/sysusers.d/systemd.conf \
> >> +                ${libdir}/sysusers.d/basic.conf \
> > 
> > Admins aren't expected to edit these - instead you override in /etc.  Or
> > change /etc/passwd after the user has been created, and your changes
> > will be respected.
> 
> The real question is: do we want to keep changes to these files on package upgrade or wipe them out?

or should we encourage users to edit the files that are supposed to be
edited? 

You could argue this for every file on the system, binaries and all :/.

Cheers,

Richard