Bug#969329: systemd-cron: Special user nobody configured, this is not safe!

[Malte Schröder]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:27:20 +0100 Alexandre Detiste 
<alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I don't know how to properly fix this.
 > Using "root:root" seems worse.
 >
 > A P.R. against upstream repo is welcomed.
 >
 > Alexandre
 >
 > Le lun. 31 août 2020 à 16:54, Martin-Éric Racine
 > <martin-eric.racine at iki.fi> a écrit :
 > >
 > > Package: systemd-cron
 > > Version: 1.5.14-2
 > > Severity: important
 > >
 > > Since a recent upgrade, systemd complains loudly via dmesg:
 > >
 > > [ 45.787544] systemd[1]: 
/lib/systemd/system/cron-failure at .service:11: Special user nobody 
configured, this is not safe!
 > > [ 45.864175] systemd[1]: 
/lib/systemd/system/cron-failure at .service:11: Special user nobody 
configured, this is not safe!
 >
 >

Hi,

I just took a look at how Arch does this. Instead of User=nobody they 
use DynamicUser=yes. I changed that accordingly, I will see what happens ...


/Malte