On 2 February 2016 at 21:28, Daniel Milewski <niitotantei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Most systemd user accounts are present in the /etc/passwd file provided > by the filesystem package. This is not the case for only two of them, > namely systemd-journal-upload and systemd-journal-remote, which are set > up by systemd-sysusers, executed when the systemd package is installed. > > Is there a reason for that? Wouldn't it be better to include all > systemd users in /etc/passwd, or let systemd-sysusers handle account > creation? it's better to let `systemd-sysusers` create all users, /etc/passwd should probably not be included in any package since it changes in the lifetime of the distro and updates are hard to merge. -- damjan
