[OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/2] Create systemd users at build time

Puustinen, Ismo ismo.puustinen at intel.com
Wed May 11 10:46:38 UTC 2016


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


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