Bug#912525: systemd: nobody group is created by systemd-sysusers automatically

[Michael Biebl]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 07:47:48 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 01.11.18 um 03:22 schrieb Keh-Ming Luoh:
> 
> > I think there is a bug in debian/extra/make-sysusers-basic 
> 
> 
> I can confirm that running systemd-sysusers in a fresh sid chroot yields:
> > # systemd-sysusers
> > Creating group nobody with gid 999.
> > Creating group systemd-coredump with gid 998.
> > Creating user systemd-coredump (systemd Core Dumper) with uid 998 and gid 998.
> 
> Martin is most familiar with that particular code, so it would be best
> if he can take a look.
> 
> Besides fixing make-sysusers-basic, I think we should also clean-up the
> nobody group on updates.

Martin, would really appreciate your feedback/review for this issue.

Regards,
Michael

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