Re: F28 System Wide Change: Rename "nobody" user

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On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 04:45:35PM +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> > And also, at some point in the future once this is implemented and the
> > new setup has been around for a while, systemd should start emitting a
> > warning during boot, to notify people that such setups will stop being
> > supported at some future point.
> 
> But your average user won't see that. For starters we have a splash
> screen by default (or at least my system does) and with systemd the
> boot is going too fast so I usually don't have time to see anything at
> all :)
> 
> (except during shutdown, where I actually get warnings and have time
> to read them even!)
Sorry for that, we're working on fixing those ;)

> When I install a port on FreeBSD I sometimes get an /etc/issue-like
> message from the port maintainer giving pointers regarding installed
> services and whatnots... If Fedora had something like that it could be
> turn into an opt-in action: "I see that your nobody user has uid 99,
> run this command with root privileges to fix that" with a link to a
> wiki page warning about the known pitfalls.
> 
> However, where would you put this message? Terminal? Gnome? Spins?
You are right, a warning during boot would not reach a large subgroup
of users. A boot-time warning would be useful for developers and
sysadmins. When the time comes, we should probably add release notes
entry or something like that.

Zbyszek
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