Bug 2095462

Summary: [RFE] sanlock use systemd-sysusers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Pat Riehecky <riehecky>
Component: sanlockAssignee: David Teigland <teigland>
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Description Pat Riehecky 2022-06-09 18:15:17 UTC
Description of problem:
sanlock has static useradd scripts

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sanlock-3.8.4-1.el9

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.review %pre
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Actual results:
getent group sanlock > /dev/null || /usr/sbin/groupadd \
    -g 179 sanlock
getent passwd sanlock > /dev/null || /usr/sbin/useradd \
    -u 179 -c "sanlock" -s /sbin/nologin -r \
    -g 179 -d /var/run/sanlock sanlock
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G disk sanlock

Expected results:
use of system-sysusers 

Additional info:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sysusers.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Adopting_sysusers.d_format

Comment 2 David Teigland 2023-05-16 16:40:16 UTC
It's not clear exactly what the sysusers replacement would look like, even after googling and reading many pages about the subject.  I would expect that this is a common enough pattern that a direct translation could be documented.