Hey,
An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package?
Thanks, Yash
On 5/21/20 10:29 PM, karx via aur-general wrote:
Hey,
An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package?
Use sysusers.d(5) to install a description of the user you need. systemd comes with a pacman hook to create users based on sysusers.d dropins (and for non-systemd distros using e.g. OpenRC, there are reimplementations like opensysusers, because this is generally portable and beneficial to use).
You can usually specify the "-" placeholder instead of a reserved, hardocded uid, and have one automatically assigned. This is preferable whenever possible.
You can check the output of
$ pkgfile -vr '/usr/lib/sysusers.d/.*.conf'
to see which packages in the repositories use sysusers.d files, and see how they are using it for inspiration. (Or see which packages on your system provide files in /usr/lib/sysusers.d/)
On May 22, 2020 2:29:52 AM UTC, karx via aur-general aur-general@archlinux.org wrote:
Hey,
An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package?
Thanks, Yash
I looked up an official package I know creates a user (postgresql) and it seems to provide this file[1] and install it in the PKGBUILD[2] with the following line (line 208) :
install -Dm 644 ${pkgname}.sysusers "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/${pkgname}.conf"
[1]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/postgresql.sysuse... [2]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packag...
An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package?
See if you can make it work with DynamicUser=yes. Most of the applications are fine working as such.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#DynamicUs... http://0pointer.net/blog/dynamic-users-with-systemd.html
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