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

[Stephano Cetola]

On 05/12, Puustinen, Ismo wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 12:04 -0700, Stephano Cetola wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I added "--system" to both useradd and groupadd, and I believe that
> > is
> > the same as "-r". Please correct me if I am wrong there.
> > 
> > I do not see how the "-m" option would help with groups. I thought
> > that
> > simply added a skeleton home directory. Could you give me an example?
> 
> I mean that when you parse the sysusers.d configuration file
> in create_systemd_sysusers() function, you only parse the lines
> starting with 'u' and 'g'. You are skipping 'm' and 'r'. See:
> 
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d.html
> 
> What I'm after is a generic mechanism for reading all sysusers.d/
> configuration files during image creation and creating the necessary
> users and groups during that time. You could also separate mechanism
> and policy, meaning that the list of files to parse could come from
> outside of the create_systemd_sysusers() function.
> 
> Ismo

Ah, I see.  Yes, I agree this would be of value. I think that "m" should
be straight forward to implement, though "r" might get a little
complicated with the staticids class. I'll look into both of these.

Cheers,
Stephano