QEMU might not be installed on the build system, in which case
the user and group will not be present. We should avoid falling
back to root:root in that case, and assume the user and group
are going to be present in the target system instead.
Suggested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
meson.build | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 388e2cfa5e..f08a25f53c 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1678,14 +1678,6 @@ if not get_option('driver_qemu').disabled()
default_qemu_user = 'root'
default_qemu_group = 'root'
endif
- # If the expected user and group don't exist, or we haven't hit any
- # of the cases above bacuse we're running on an unknown OS, the only
- # sensible fallback is root:root
- if (run_command('getent', 'passwd', default_qemu_user, check: false).returncode() != 0 and
- run_command('getent', 'group', default_qemu_group, check: false).returncode() != 0)
- default_qemu_user = 'root'
- default_qemu_group = 'root'
- endif
endif
qemu_user = get_option('qemu_user')
if qemu_user == ''
--
2.34.1
