On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 01:48:02PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > A long time ago, Balint added code to login's postinst to create > /etc/subuid, /etc/subgid. This is necessary, because without the > files existing, useradd does not add entries to them. > > However: > > 1) login is not essential anymore. > > 2) people want to use useradd from a 'host environment' (like > outside a chroot). In this case, passwd might also be absent. > > I had the thought that base-passwd might be a better place to create > these files, but didn't want to introduce extra churn. Helmut > independently suggested a similar thought. > > Colin, what do you think? Can/should base-passwd create /etc/subuid, > /etc/subgid on new installs and upgrades?
I don't see any obvious problems with this. I'd like to allow a week or so for comment, so I've told my task tracker to remind me about this next week. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
