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

[Bruno Thomsen <bruno.thomsen@gmail.com>]

Den tors. 13. feb. 2025 kl. 14.40 skrev 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 As stated by the (slightly outdated) comments, no user or group named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 already exist, and remove the outdated comments.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.

I know Fedora is looking at solving this issue [1] with systemd sysusers.d [2]
but that is ofcourse not possible in non-systemd builds.

/Bruno

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMSuportForSystemdSysusers
[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html

> 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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