Re: [arch-general] systemd user accounts are created in a inconsistent way

On 2 February 2016 at 21:28, Daniel Milewski <niitotantei@riseup.net> wrote:

Most systemd user accounts are present in the /etc/passwd file provided by the filesystem package. This is not the case for only two of them, namely systemd-journal-upload and systemd-journal-remote, which are set up by systemd-sysusers, executed when the systemd package is installed.

Is there a reason for that? Wouldn't it be better to include all systemd users in /etc/passwd, or let systemd-sysusers handle account creation?

it's better to let `systemd-sysusers` create all users, /etc/passwd should probably not be included in any package since it changes in the lifetime of the distro and updates are hard to merge. -- damjan