On 11/27/2016 09:16 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > There is no such think as "arch expects". It is a default setting in > /etc/login.defs that is being used by systemd because it is likely that a devs > don't change login.defs before building systemd... Well, packages can have files that need to have a specific system user ownership. That is why the UID/GID database exists, right? Because the UID baked into the *.pkg.tar.xz has to match /etc/passwd, and systemd-sysusers can't inherently do anything that repetitive useradd + getent scripting wasn't always capable of. > I strongly suspect that the above wikipage is deprecated. Most likely all arch > packages will move to sysuser.d sooner or later. I don't see why, again, systemd-sysusers was designed as a declarative alternative to `useradd -r` and the Wikipage was never deprecated by useradd... > BTW, have you read the manpage of sysuser.d? You can override those "default" > IDs by specifying your own, just need to change a few files (on our NIS master > there are only snippets supplied with systemd)... Do you mean, by manually specifying a hardcoded UID for each user??? -- Eli Schwartz
