Re: [PATCH 2/2] rpm: disable account creation for Fedora >= 42

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:56:07PM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 15:21:31 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > In Fedora >= 42, support for user/group account creation based on > > sysusers files has been enabled in RPM. Manually running useradd/ > > groupadd is thus obsolete. > > Do you have any pointer to how this actually works? So far users/groups > defined in sysusers were created at the end of transaction, which was > pretty useless. Is the change in Fedora about creating the users/groups > after each package is installed or even before? In other words, will the > following still work or will installation complain that the user/groups > do not exist? > > %attr(0755, %{qemu_user}, %{qemu_group}) > %attr(4750, root, virtlogin) That should do the right thing https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMSuportForSystemdSysusers IIUC, RPM should see the sysusers files in the package and take care to create the user accounts before deploying the files.