On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Magnus Therning
I have a feeling this should be documented somewhere, but I can't seem to find anything about it.
When catching up with the latest package updates just now I noticed I had a passwd.pacnew file in /etc. When merging in the changes I found I have two systemd user entries that don't appear in the upstream file:
systemd-journal-remote:x:997:997:systemd Journal Remote:/:/usr/bin/nologin systemd-journal-upload:x:996:996:systemd Journal Upload:/:/usr/bin/nologin
Are they safe to remove?
I don't find any mention to these users in the documentation [1][2] but... -I'm guessing here- these users seem to be used only for the services of the same name. See /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journal-{remote,upload}.service. So if you are not planning to use these services, you should not need these users. BTW, there is also a systemd-journal-gateway, with the same pattern. HTH. [1]: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journal-upload.html [2]: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journal-remote.html