Re: [RFC PATCH 00/22] Replace community.general.zypper

[Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 09:41:38PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Apr 15, 2024, at 5:35 PM, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:32:59PM -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 9:39 AM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> I've been able to test some of this series with OpenSuSE 15.3.
> >>>> Found and fixed one bug. I've pushed the result to:
> >>>> 
> >>>> https://github.com/chucklever/kdevops/tree/replace-zypper-module
> >>>> 
> >>>> However it looks like the fstests workflow hasn't been tested
> >>>> on SuSE for quite some time.
> >>>> 
> >>>> OpenSuSE doesn't like the group name "123456-fsgqa" (and probably
> >>>> the user name is rejected too, but kdevops tries the group first,
> >>>> and that's where the workflow fails).
> >>> 
> >>> I am able to add users without any issue here.
> >> 
> >> Is "here" on an OpenSuSE 15.3 system? I did log into the test system
> >> and try "groupadd" directly, and it failed in the same way.
> > 
> > openSUSE Tumbleweed, but I am sure nothing has changed since openSUSE 15.3
> > I am able to add the group 123456-fsgqa. However, if you have added a
> > 123456-fsgqa *user* before it may fail. What is the error message you
> > get?
> 
> TASK [fstests : Add missing groups for fstests] ************************************************************************************************
> changed: [cel-tmpfs-default] => (item=Ensuring the group sys exists)
> failed: [cel-tmpfs-default] (item=Ensuring the group 123456-fsgqa exists) => {
>     "ansible_loop_var": "item",
>     "changed": false,
>     "item": "123456-fsgqa",
>     "name": "123456-fsgqa"
> }
> 
> MSG:
> 
> groupadd: '123456-fsgqa' is not a valid group name
> 
> I logged in at the time, and tried by hand:
> 
> cel-tmpfs-default:~ # groupadd 123456-fsgqa
> groupadd: '123456-fsgqa' is not a valid group name
> cel-tmpfs-default:~ #

The issue is that SLE is using shadow v4.8, and it doesn't allow
user/group names starting with digits. This was later on relaxed via
shadow upstream commit cfc981df2afc ("shadow: use relaxed usernames")
which was released in v4.13. This is why this works in TW.

I had a local old kdevops patch that did "useradd --badnames -U" to
bypass the check for SLE.

Regards,
Anthony