[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 215 group names

[Martti Kühne]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you're a [testing] user who's installed systemd 215 with a pkgrel of
> 1-3, you're interested in this.
>
> A new feature of systemd, sysusers, was introduced which creates
> users/groups on demand for stateless systems.  The upstream files ship
> the groups 'dialout', 'tape', and 'cdrom'. With systemd-215-4, these are
> properly modified to Arch's 'uucp', 'storage', and 'optical',
> respectively.
>
> If you installed a prior version, you likely now have these former
> groups in your /etc/group -- these can be safely deleted, as we will not
> currently use them. In other words, you can safely run:
>
> sed -i.bkup '/^\(dialout\|tape\|cdrom\):x:/d' /etc/group
>
> Make sure to diff the result against /etc/group.bkup afterwards and
> delete the backup if not needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

Answering on arch-general as I can't post to arch-dev-public.
Because, while we're at it... I'm not very proud to add, don't use
sudo while moving around /etc/group.

I'm currently travelling and more or less only have this machine to
work with. As I haven't memorized any systemd boot flags, some time
later I finally found a way to get back up and running by setting
"init=/bin/bash"...

So, really, don't use sudo for /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow}.

cheers!
mar77i