Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] avahi: use working defaults for user/group

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 09:35:38AM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 12:01:22AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > As stated by the (slightly outdated) comments, no user or group named
> > "avahi" or "avahi-autoipd" exists in the default /etc/passwd or
> > /etc/group in PTXdist, so Avahi will complain about the missing
> > user/group and refuse to start with the default configuration. Set the
> > default values to the unprivileged "nobody"/"nogroup" instead, which
> > already exist, and remove the outdated comments.
> 
> Nack. These services have separate users for a reason.
> 
> I understand that adding users is currently awkward. I've been thinking
> about better ways to do this for some time. I'm open for ideas about that.

Hmh yes, something like an install_* macro that is called in the targetinstall
stage, and writes the to-be-created users into a file from where the rootfs
package will pick it up later?

 - Roland

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