[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#791661: Bug#791661: patches

[Balint Reczey]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo patch upstream

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:27:11 +0100 Dimitri John Ledkov
<dimitri.j.ledkov at intel.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 18 September 2015 at 08:13, Michael Vogt <mvo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > looks like the actual patches are missing for some reason. Attached
> > are the two patches that add support for libnss-extrausers.
> >
> 
> These patches look weird. Are these used to manipulate
> /var/lib/extrausers/* ? and why not use systemd-sysusers for that?
> 
> E.g. in clearlinux.org we have sysusers.d config files, which at build
> time are used to generate {passwd,group,shadow,...}
> 
> The patches that we have for shadow (and i believe i have even
> published some of them) go further - that is they load information
> from both databases and allow manipulating it. Such that kvm group is
> defined in altfiles location, yet one can still add users to said
> group. In those patches a lookup is done to alternative location, and
> the entry is copied across into the writable /etc/group, if one wants
> custom user accounts to be added into a "system" group. There we use
> libnss-altfiles modules.
> 
> Could you please elaborate how this patch fits together and used in
> Ubuntu / snappy? If it's never interactive, why not use
> systemd-sysusers support then?

Could you please upstream [1] the Ubuntu or the ClearLinux version?
I would happily update the package with the fix, but I would prefer one
you could agree on.

Cheers,
Balint

[1] https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow