Bug#990349: systemd-sysusers keeps creating systemd-timesync and systemd-coredump

2021-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2021-06-27 at 15:00 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I fail to see the security benefit here? What do we gain by (not) > pre-allocating a system group like systemd-coredump? Well it's not a big issue... but as always: something that is not even there, may not be abused in the first place.

Bug#990349: systemd-sysusers keeps creating systemd-timesync and systemd-coredump

2021-06-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.06.21 um 20:40 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 20:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: You can try to convince upstream to split up the (monolithic) systemd.conf this way though. I've asked them to consider this in: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20044

Bug#990349: systemd-sysusers keeps creating systemd-timesync and systemd-coredump

2021-06-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 20:07 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Then systemd would just setup all groups that are used by systemd > (and > sub-packages). Seems to be a good change... but it would then still set up *all* users, whether the respective part is used or no. > Personally, I don't think

Bug#990349: systemd-sysusers keeps creating systemd-timesync and systemd-coredump

2021-06-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.06.2021 um 17:38 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: Package: systemd Version: 247.3-5 Severity: normal Hey. I was recently doing some manual cleanup of stale users/grous and since the systemd-timesync and systemd-coredump users/groups a no longer created by the systemd package itself