On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heya! > > I just tagged the v229 release of systemd. Enjoy! > > CHANGES WITH 229: > > <snip> > > * When the stacktrace is extracted from processes of system users, > this > is now done as "systemd-coredump" user, in order to sandbox this > potentially security sensitive parsing operation. (Note that when > processing coredumps of normal users this is done under the user ID > of process that crashed, as before.) Packagers should take notice > that it is now necessary to create the "systemd-coredump" system > user > and group at package installation time. >
Why is it left to downstream to create this user? What makes it different from the other 4 users which systemd already creates? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
