On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 12:01:22AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> As stated by the (slightly outdated) comments, no user or group named
> "avahi" or "avahi-autoipd" exists in the default /etc/passwd or
> /etc/group in PTXdist, so Avahi will complain about the missing
> user/group and refuse to start with the default configuration. Set the
> default values to the unprivileged "nobody"/"nogroup" instead, which
> already exist, and remove the outdated comments.

Nack. These services have separate users for a reason.

I understand that adding users is currently awkward. I've been thinking
about better ways to do this for some time. I'm open for ideas about that.

Regards,
Michael

> Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <[email protected]>
> ---
>  rules/avahi.in | 20 ++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rules/avahi.in b/rules/avahi.in
> index a038a1efeb2a..90ef7088110b 100644
> --- a/rules/avahi.in
> +++ b/rules/avahi.in
> @@ -74,22 +74,16 @@ if AVAHI_DAEMON
>  config AVAHI_USER
>       string
>       prompt "user for running the avahi (mDNS/DNS-SD) daemon"
> -     default "avahi"
> +     default "nobody"
>       help
>         Enter the user name to run the avahi (mDNS/DNS-SD) daemon with.
> -       The PTXdist standard configuration has only root, so if you want
> -       to use the avahi default user "avahi" you have to create
> -       a related user yourself.
>  
>  config AVAHI_GROUP
>       string
>       prompt "group for running the avahi (mDNS/DNS-SD) daemon"
> -     default "avahi"
> +     default "nogroup"
>       help
>         Enter the group name to run the avahi (mDNS/DNS-SD) daemon with.
> -       The PTXdist standard configuration has only root, so if you want
> -       to use the avahi default group "avahi" you have to create
> -       a related group yourself.
>  
>  config AVAHI_SERVICES
>       bool
> @@ -130,22 +124,16 @@ if AVAHI_AUTOIP
>  config AVAHI_AUTOIP_USER
>       string
>       prompt "user for running the avahi autoip (IPv4LL) daemon"
> -     default "avahi-autoipd"
> +     default "nobody"
>       help
>         Enter the user name to run the avahi autoip (IPv4LL) daemon with.
> -       The PTXdist standard configuration has only root, so if you want
> -       to use the avahi default user "avahi-autoipd" you have to create
> -       a related user yourself.
>  
>  config AVAHI_AUTOIP_GROUP
>       string
>       prompt "group for running the avahi autoip (IPv4LL) daemon"
> -     default "avahi-autoipd"
> +     default "nogroup"
>       help
>         Enter the group name to run the avahi autoip (IPv4LL) daemon with.
> -       The PTXdist standard configuration has only root, so if you want
> -       to use the avahi default group "avahi-autoipd" you have to create
> -       a related group yourself.
>  endif
>  
>  config AVAHI_COMPAT
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 
> 
> 

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