On Sat, Oct 4 2025 at 10:11:07 PM -00:00:00, Wolfgang Rupprecht
<[email protected]> wrote:
The two aspects that scared me were:
1) that UID wasn't shown in /etc/passwd (minor bug)
/etc/passwd is only one of many possible providers of user accounts. To
see them all, check the passwd line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. On my system
it looks like this:
passwd: files systemd
nss-files provides user accounts from /etc/passwd, but nss-systemd can
also provide user accounts, which is what's happening here. I think we
used to use nss-sssd as well, but I guess that's not enabled by default
anymore. At least, it's not there for me.
2) that UID didn't follow the convention of system UID's being less
than 1000 (another minor bug
That convention only applies to statically-allocated uids, not for
dynamic users. The login screen is uses a new dynamic (temporary) user
each time you start it. For more info:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/553
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/289
There is actual documentation here:
https://systemd.io/USER_GROUP_API/
Michael
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