Why exactly is systemd-sysusers needed here anyway? Do you not have a passwd
and shadow file?
On September 16, 2019 5:41:04 PM UTC, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de>
wrote:
>On Mo, 16.09.19 09:45, Troy Dawson (tdaw...@redhat.com) wrote:
>
>> systemd-sysusers seeks to unify user creation[1]. It also has the
>> benefit of being able to create users on bootup. But, it pulls in the
>> entire systemd infrastructure with all it's dependencies.
>>
>> containers do not need systemd to run. They are trying to be as small
>> as possible. But if a package in container needs to add a user, then
>> systemd is pulled in and that container grows by up to 60M.[2]
>>
>> Minimizing containers, both in the short term and long term, are
>> important to the minimization team. We have opened an issue for
>> this.[3]
>>
>> Any ideas on what we recommend to users?
>
>systemd-tmpfiles runs without PID 1 being systemd. That said,
>something needs to run it. Typically that's a service manager of some
>kind, since the tool is wrapped as a service. If you don't have that,
>you need to call it yourself somehow differently...
>
>That all said it's entirely sufficient to invoke the tool at container
>build time, and RPM scriptlets generally do that anyway. In that case
>there's no need to have it around at runtime.
>
>Lennart
>
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