[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/openssh: Add sysusers.d snippet

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

On 2018-12-18 14:14 +0000, Chris Lesiak spake thusly:
> On 12/18/18 1:49 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:59:04 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> >>   Which brings me to my question to Chris: what was the purpose of this patch to
> >> begin with? Since OPENSSH_USERS is already set, the sshd user will already exist
> >> in /etc/passwd, so the sysusers.d directive will be ignored... Either that, or
> >> our mkusers script doesn't work correctly.
> > Stateless systems, where /etc and /var don't even "exist" in a
> > persistent fashion, and are entirely populated at boot time.
> In my particular case, /etc is empty on first boot, but retains state 
> after that.? Even if I started with a populated /etc/passwd, when 
> updating /usr (switching in a new version to update the the OS), I might 
> have new services with associated users that I would like to have 
> automatically added to /etc/passwd.

So it can also serve for reset-factory situations, too, I guess? A
trigger that wipes the filesystem backing /etc and reboots, and then
you are in factory-pristine configuartion. Neat.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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