On 2020-04-11 9:04 p.m., Simon Déziel wrote:
> On 2020-04-10 1:16 p.m., Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>> The abstraction is meant to cover the client, not systemd internal
>> specifics. A client simply accessing that DBus API won't need it and a
>> client simply accessing those sockets won't need it. It very well might
>> be that a profiled application is using some *ctl command from systemd
>> that would need it, but in that case said command would need to be added
>> to the policy and the boot-id could be added at that time.
> 
> I don't know as squid, named and samba (to name a few) generate many
> denials trying to read /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id. None of those
> are explicitly trying to use the DynamicUser feature. Could it be just a
> side effect of how nsswitch.conf is setup by default?
> 
> $ grep systemd /etc/nsswitch.conf
> passwd:         files systemd
> group:          files systemd

This is indeed due to having systemd in the default nsswitch.conf. I've
report the problem in LP: #1872564

Simon

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