It seems we moved one step forward with SLING-6772 and introducing a default mapping for service users.
However nearly at the same time we made a big step backwards: many of our modules which use a service user now have a dependency (reference) to org.apache.sling.serviceusermapping.ServiceUserMapped in order to avoid that a component starts without the service user being present. Unfortunately this service user is only available if a configuration for that service user exists - but this is not created for the default mapping. Ultimately this means we've moved another big step away from a configurationless Sling - which is really sad. Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler Adobe Research Switzerland cziege...@apache.org