Bug#1080041: adduser: take sysusers.d files as input

[Ansgar 🙀]

Hi,

On Sun, 2024-09-01 at 07:43 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:16:34 +0200 Lorenzo Puliti
> <plorenzo at disroot.org> wrote:
> 
> > If adduser could be used as alternative to systemd by 
> > dh_installsysusers that would solve my issue. Even if you don't
> > care 
> > about my use case, the linux world is standardizing more and more
> > on 
> > systemd features so maybe this could be a useful addition to
> > adduser?
> > 
> > According to my understanding, in order to be used by
> > dh_installsysusers adduser has to learn to
> > 
> > A) create system user on a target chroot
> > 
> > B) use a sysusers.d[3] file as input
> Isn't that what opensysusers already does?

In principle yes, but it is not in testing due to issues like [1].  It
already had other security issues in the past[2] and upstream seems
dead (last commit two years ago).

Probably someone would need to write a proper replacement that doesn't
have such issues, but there currently seems nobody who is both
interested and capable to implement it (as for similar other cases).

Ansgar

  [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/1055517
  [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/992058