I have no idea what was my reasoning that led to this change, but it is
simply wrong: systemd-journal-upload.service uses
User=systemd-journal-upload together with DynamicUser=yes, so the user
doesn't have to (and shouldn't) exist before starting the service.
See:
- 941afc4b90
- db8b8fe77c
This reverts commit 5b9dfd33c6.
In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156900 sysusers was reporting a
conflict between the following lines:
u root 0:0 "Super User" /root /bin/bash
u root 0 "Super User" /root
The problem is that those configurations are indeed not equivalent. If group 0
exists with a different name, the first line would just create the user, but the
second line would create a 'root' group with a different GID. The second
behaviour seems definitely wrong. (Or at least more confusing in practice than
the first one. The system is in a strange shape, but the second approach takes
an additional step than is worse than doing nothing.)
When this line was initially added, we didn't have the uid:gid functionality for
'u', so we didn't think about this too much. But now we do, so we should use it.
$ build/systemd-sysusers --root=/var/tmp/inst7 --inline 'g foobar 0'
Creating group 'foobar' with GID 0.
$ build/systemd-sysusers --root=/var/tmp/inst7 --inline 'u root 0 "Zuper zuper"'
src/sysusers/sysusers.c:1365: Creating group 'root' with GID 999.
src/sysusers/sysusers.c:1115: Suggested user ID 0 for root already used.
src/sysusers/sysusers.c:1183: Creating user 'root' (Zuper zuper) with UID 999 and GID 999.
vs.
$ build/systemd-sysusers --root=/var/tmp/inst7 --inline 'u root 0:0 "Zuper zuper"'
src/sysusers/sysusers.c:1183: Creating user 'root' (Zuper zuper) with UID 0 and GID 0.
GIT_VERSION is not available as a config.h variable, because it's rendered
into version.h during builds. Let's rework jinja2 rendering to also
parse version.h. No functional change, the new variable is so far unused.
I guess this will make partial rebuilds a bit slower, but it's useful
to be able to use the full version string.
On distros using Debian's base-passwd, the name of the group with gid 65534 is
nogroup. Currently, systemd-sysusers creates a spurious "nobody" group
systemd-sysusers[243]: Creating group nobody with gid 996
That's both confusing and redundant, as the nobody user still has primary group
65534 aka nogroup, and the nobody group simply goes completely unused.
So explicitly specify the primary group of the nobody user, and add a line
ensuring that that group exists.
This is not a problem for Debian (or Ubuntu) itself, as they add their own
version of basic.conf in their systemd build logic. But it appears on for
example Yocto/OpenEmbedded.
When using "capture : true" in custom_target()s the mode of the source
file is not preserved when the generated file is not installed and so
needs to be tweaked manually. Switch from output capture to creating the
target file and copy the permissions from the input file.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The general idea with users and groups created through sysusers is that an
appropriate number is picked when the allocation is made. The number that is
selected will be different on each system based on the order of creation of
users, installed packages, etc. Since system users and groups are not shared
between installations, this generally is not an issue. But it becomes a problem
for initrd: some file systems are shared between the initrd and the host (/run
and /dev are probably the only ones that matter). If the allocations are
different in the host and the initrd, and files survive switch-root, they will
have wrong ownership.
This makes the gids build-time-configurable for all groups and users where
state may survive the switch from initrd to the host.
In particular, all "hardware access" groups are like this: files in /dev will
be owned by them. Eventually the new udev would change ownership, but there
would be a momemnt where the files were owned by the wrong group. The
allocations are "soft-static" in the language of Fedora packaging guidelines:
the uid/gid will be used if possible, but we'll fall back to a different
one. TTY_GID is the exception, because the number is used directly.
Similarly, the possibility to configure "soft-static" uids is added for daemons
which may usefully run in the initramfs: systemd-network (lease information and
interface state is serialized to /run), systemd-resolve (stub files and
interface state), systemd-timesync (/run/systemd/timesync).
Journal files are owned by the group systemd-journal, and acls are granted
for wheel and adm.
systemd-oom and systemd-coredump are excluded from this patch: I assume that
oomd is not useful in the initrd, and coredump leaves no state (it only creates
a pipe in /run?).
The defaults are not changed: if nothing is configured, dynamic allocation will
be used. I looked at a Debian system, and the numbers are all different than
on Fedora.
For Fedora, see the list of uids and gids at https://pagure.io/setup/blob/master/f/uidgid.
In particular, systemd-network and systemd-resolve got soft-static numbers to
make it easy to transition from a non-host-specific initrd to a host system
already a few years back (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102002).
I also requested static allocations for sgx, input, render in
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1078,
https://pagure.io/setup/pull-request/27.
m4 was nice in '85, but the syntax feels a bit dated. Since we use python for
meson, let's use a popular python templating engine to replace some m4 usage.
A little nicety is that typos are caught:
FAILED: sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf -- /home/zbyszek/src/systemd/tools/meson-render-jinja2.py config.h ../sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf.j2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/tools/meson-render-jinja2.py", line 28, in <module>
print(render(sys.argv[2], defines))
File "/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/tools/meson-render-jinja2.py", line 24, in render
return template.render(defines)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 1090, in render
self.environment.handle_exception()
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 832, in handle_exception
reraise(*rewrite_traceback_stack(source=source))
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jinja2/_compat.py", line 28, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "<template>", line 8, in top-level template code
jinja2.exceptions.UndefinedError: 'HAVE_MICROHTTP' is undefined
This checking mirrors what 349cc4a507 did for C defines.
Closes#18669.
This creates a "well known" for sgx_enclave ownership. By doing this here we
avoid the risk that various projects making use of the device will provide
similar-but-slightly-incompatible installation instructions, in particular
using different group names.
ACLs are actually a better approach to grant access to users, but not in all
cases, so we want to provide a standard group anyway.
Mode is 0o660, not 0o666 because this is very new code and distributions are
likely to not want to give full access to all users. This might change in the
future, but being conservative is a good default in the beginning.
Rules for /dev/sgx_provision will be provided by libsg-ae-pce:
https://github.com/intel/linux-sgx/issues/678.
All this test does is manipulate text files in a subdir specified with --testroot.
It can be a normal unittest without the overhead of creating a machine image.
As a bonus, also test the .standalone version.
This partially reverts d4e9e574ea,
0187368cad, and
4240cb02fd.
The services systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved, and systemd-timesyncd
enable DynamicUsers= and have bus interfaces. Unfortunately, these
has many problems now. Let us create the relevant users, at least,
tentatively.
Fixes#9503.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
