Bug#857309: kodi: 'kodi' user does not exist

[Bálint Réczey]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 confirmed

Hi Moritz,

2017-03-09 21:55 GMT+01:00 Moritz Schmidt <moritz+debian at mmnx.de>:
> Package: kodi
> Version: 2:17.0+dfsg1-3
> Severity: important
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> I installed the kodi package on a fresh installed debian testing and enabled the kodi systemd-service which should start kodi in standalone mode.
> The service file (/lib/systemd/system/kodi.service) is configured to run as 'kodi' user, but this user doesn't exist after installation.
> I think automatically adding the user when using him would make sense.

It would make sense if every installation used the kodi user, but
there are many people who start kodi from their normal session or set
up automatic logging in in the display manager to start kodi [1].

I was thinking about adding a debconf question about adding the kodi
user and enabling  the standalone mode during package configuration
but this is about the same amount of added complexity as the current
manual addition of the kodi user.

I think if someone sets up a system for kodi only the first added user
is usually the user which runs kodi anyway.

AFAIK the kodi-systemd-service way is preferred on constrained systems
where running even lightdm would waste too much memory,
but I have just found nodm [2] which could also help here.

> After adding the user everything works as expected.

Great!

I will consider adding the debconf question and creating the kodi
user, but not by default.

>
> Thanks for your work and have a nice day,
> Moritz Schmidt

Thanks!

Cheers,
Balint

[1] http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Autostart_Kodi_for_Linux
[2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nodm.html