Problems with/etc/group & hosts files after pacstrap

Trilby · 2018-03-11 01:21:09

Please do not hijack a thread. While a side comment here is related to your question, yours is an entirely different question than what is covered in this thread.

rtfreedman · 2018-03-11 01:42:02

I don't see my question as hijacking a thread.

Trilby wrote:

Is having read/write access to files created on a *nix filesystem from another system your concern?

Yes, that's the problem I have.

Trilby wrote:

There are trivial ways to deal with that if it is.

Please enlighten me.

Trilby · 2018-03-11 01:49:30

No.

rtfreedman · 2018-03-11 01:55:48

@trilby It's all about dynamic changing UID/GID
Would you like me to open another thread for a trivial answer?

eschwartz · 2018-03-11 02:03:28

I'm not sure I understand the problem here. This thread was initially opened as a question regarding, why everything is dynamically created by sysusers.d(5) instead of using a shipped /etc/passwd

The answer to which is simple enough, as the sysusers file contains the exact same contents as the passwd file did, except the sysusers file is declarative which the passwd file was not. This makes the post_upgrade scriptlet simpler (because not having one is simpler than having one that maintains a copy of the passwd file).

The fact that some things were moved to dynamic users is completely orthogonal to that move, and only partially related to this thread. But the OP mentioned that their potential need to transfer user account data across machines, means they need to know what the UID and GID of those users are....

... to which we responded, okay, specify your own UID/GID sets in a sysusers.d snippet or otherwise define the users/groups you need, the way you need.

If something about that was not sufficient to answer any questions you had, this is a sign that your question is not, in fact, actually related to this thread.

jasonwryan · 2018-03-11 02:48:41

rtfreedman wrote:

I don't see my question as hijacking a thread.

I do. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … _hijacking

Closing

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