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From: "Puustinen, Ismo" <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>
To: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>,
	"stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com"
	<stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Create systemd users at build time
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 10:46:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1462963597.11059.13.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462837346-27095-1-git-send-email-stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 16:42 -0700, Stephano Cetola wrote:
> Systemd has a config option sysusers which creates any users or
> groups that
> systemd needs on first boot. There is a rootfs-postcommand that
> creates these
> users in case the filesystem is readonly, however it does not take
> into
> account any staicids that the user may have set.
> 
> By adding these users at build time, we allow a check for staticids,
> which would
> otherwise have been skipped.

I think this is a valuable feature. However, have you considered adding
the "m" and "r" options too? I think that at least "m" would be
worthwhile to implement, since it's important to be able to add users
to different groups for privilege management.

Ismo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-11 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-09 23:42 [PATCH v2 0/2] Create systemd users at build time Stephano Cetola
2016-05-09 23:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] systemd: add sysusers config option to defaults Stephano Cetola
2016-05-09 23:50   ` Khem Raj
2016-05-10  0:24     ` Stephano Cetola
2016-05-09 23:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] systemd: add users/groups at build rather than runtime Stephano Cetola
2016-05-09 23:49   ` Khem Raj
2016-05-10  0:55     ` Stephano Cetola
2016-05-10  0:58       ` Khem Raj
2016-05-11 10:46 ` Puustinen, Ismo [this message]
2016-05-11 19:04   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Create systemd users at build time Stephano Cetola
2016-05-12 11:17     ` Puustinen, Ismo
2016-05-12 15:30       ` Stephano Cetola

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