On Thu, Jul 10, 2014, at 12:46 AM, William wrote: > Under what conditions are these two files created / touched? When systemd-sysusers is run. > When I install a package and add a file to this sysuser directory, is > only that user added to passwd and shadow? The answer to this is pretty simple; systemd-sysusers does nothing if the user already exists. It has built-in idempotency. Contrast with the fact that shadow-utils doesn't, so all of the RPM %pre scripts duplicate it in shell. > Is there a way to disable or remove a system user from being added > to /etc/shadow? Why? > Are changes to shadow/passwd made by a user respected / preserved (IE to > a user account)? Yes. > What happens if a human edits the system account generated by systemd, > do the changes get lost? See above; if you edit the passwd entry post-creation, systemd won't change it. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
