Bug 1658824 - systemd-journal-remote missing upload user
Summary: systemd-journal-remote missing upload user
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Jan Synacek
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Reported: 2018-12-12 23:00 UTC by Scott Poore
Modified: 2019-12-18 09:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-12-18 09:14:47 UTC
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Description Scott Poore 2018-12-12 23:00:39 UTC 
Description of problem:

I ran into an issue when setting up systemd-journal-upload to "send" journal log entries to a remote host.  It appears that 

[root@vm2 CA]# grep User= /lib/systemd/system/systemd-journal-upload.service
User=systemd-journal-upload
DynamicUser=yes

[root@vm2 CA]# id systemd-journal-upload
id: ‘systemd-journal-upload’: no such user


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-journal-remote-239-8.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  dnf install systemd-journal-remote
2.  id systemd-journal-upload

Actual results:
no user created.

Expected results:
since the service sets a user, I would expect the rpm to create it during install.

Additional info:
Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2019-12-18 09:14:47 UTC 
DynamicUser= creates the user dynamically at runtime and frees the allocation when the service finishes. The user is not added to /etc/passwd or similar and "id" command won't show it. For more information, see man systemd.exec(5), section CREDENTIALS.
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