On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 01:03:30PM +0100, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:11:12 +0000
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > - somewhat independently, systemd-sysusers has been beefed up so it is
> > possible to use it to create system users before any files are
> > installed on disk, but honouring admin overrides. In short, we now
> > recommend the following invocation to create users for an rpm which
> > contains files owned by those users:
> >
> > %sysusers_create_package %{name} %SOURCEN
> >
> > where %SOURCEN is the tmpfiles.d config file which will be installed
> > by package. This expands to
> >
> > echo "u NAME - -" | systemd-sysusers
> > --replace=/usr/lib/sysusers.d/NAME.conf - >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> >
> > and the "u NAME - -" configuration is applied with a priority that
> > /usr/lib/sysusers.d/NAME.conf normally has (so e.g.
> > /etc/sysusers.d/NAME.conf will override this).
> >
> > [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/systemd/systemd/master/NEWS
>
> How does this interact with useradd and groupadd? Does this replace
> them? And if so, does this send the required audit events?
It's a very simple tool to create system users and group in /etc/passwd.
It just creates entries in /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}, and does not
interact with audit in any way afaik.
Zbyszek
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