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<refentry id="sysusers.d" conditional='ENABLE_SYSUSERS'
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sysusers.d</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para><command>systemd-sysusers</command> uses the files from <filename>sysusers.d</filename> directory to create
- system users and groups at package installation or boot time. This tool may be used to allocate system users and
- groups only, it is not useful for creating non-system (i.e. regular, "human") users and groups, as it accesses
- <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> directly, bypassing any more complex user
- databases, for example any database involving NIS or LDAP.</para>
+ <para><command>systemd-sysusers</command> uses the files from
+ <filename>sysusers.d</filename> directory to create system users and groups and
+ to add users to groups, at package installation or boot time. This tool may be
+ used to allocate system users and groups only, it is not useful for creating
+ non-system (i.e. regular, "human") users and groups, as it accesses
+ <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> directly,
+ bypassing any more complex user databases, for example any database involving NIS
+ or LDAP.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Configuration File Format</title>
- <para>The file format is one line per user or group containing
- name, ID, GECOS field description and home directory:</para>
+ <para>The file format is one line per user or group containing name, ID, GECOS
+ field description, home directory, and login shell:</para>
- <programlisting>#Type Name ID GECOS Home directory
-u httpd 440 "HTTP User"
-u authd /usr/bin/authd "Authorization user"
-g input - -
-m authd input
-u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>#Type Name ID GECOS Home directory Shell
+u httpd 404 "HTTP User"
+u authd /usr/bin/authd "Authorization user"
+u postgres - "Postgresql Database" /var/lib/pgsql /usr/libexec/postgresdb
+g input - -
+m authd input
+u root 0 "Superuser" /root /bin/zsh</programlisting>
<para>Empty lines and lines beginning with the <literal>#</literal> character are ignored, and may be used for
commenting.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>u</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a system user and group of the
- specified name should they not exist yet. The user's primary
- group will be set to the group bearing the same name. The
- user's shell will be set to
- <filename>/sbin/nologin</filename>, the home directory to
- the specified home directory, or <filename>/</filename> if
- none is given. The account will be created disabled, so that
- logins are not allowed.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a system user and group of the specified name should
+ they not exist yet. The user's primary group will be set to the group
+ bearing the same name. The account will be created disabled, so that logins
+ are not allowed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
numeric 32-bit UID or GID of the user/group. Do not use IDs 65535
or 4294967295, as they have special placeholder meanings.
Specify <literal>-</literal> for automatic UID/GID allocation
- for the user or group. Alternatively, specify an absolute path
+ for the user or group (this is strongly recommended unless it is strictly
+ necessary to use a specific UID or GID). Alternatively, specify an absolute path
in the file system. In this case, the UID/GID is read from the
path's owner/group. This is useful to create users whose UID/GID
match the owners of pre-existing files (such as SUID or SGID
- binaries).</para>
+ binaries).
+ The syntax <literal><replaceable>uid</replaceable>:<replaceable>gid</replaceable></literal> is also supported to
+ allow creating user and group pairs with different numeric UID and GID values. The group with the indicated GID must get created explicitly before or it must already exist. Specifying <literal>-</literal> for the UID in this syntax
+ is also supported.
+ </para>
<para>For <varname>m</varname> lines, this field should contain
the group name to add to a user to.</para>
<refsect2>
<title>GECOS</title>
- <para>A short, descriptive string for users to be created,
- enclosed in quotation marks. Note that this field may not
- contain colons.</para>
+ <para>A short, descriptive string for users to be created, enclosed in
+ quotation marks. Note that this field may not contain colons.</para>
- <para>Only applies to lines of type <varname>u</varname> and
- should otherwise be left unset, or be set to
- <literal>-</literal>.</para>
+ <para>Only applies to lines of type <varname>u</varname> and should otherwise
+ be left unset (or <literal>-</literal>).</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>Home Directory</title>
- <para>The home directory for a new system user. If omitted,
- defaults to the root directory. It is recommended to not
- unnecessarily specify home directories for system users, unless
- software strictly requires one to be set.</para>
+ <para>The home directory for a new system user. If omitted, defaults to the
+ root directory.</para>
+
+ <para>Only applies to lines of type <varname>u</varname> and should otherwise
+ be left unset (or <literal>-</literal>). It is recommended to omit this, unless
+ software strictly requires a home directory to be set.</para>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Shell</title>
+
+ <para>The login shell of the user. If not specified, this will be set to
+ <filename>/sbin/nologin</filename>, except if the UID of the user is 0, in
+ which case <filename>/bin/sh</filename> will be used.</para>
- <para>Only applies to lines of type <varname>u</varname> and
- should otherwise be left unset, or be set to
- <literal>-</literal>.</para>
+ <para>Only applies to lines of type <varname>u</varname> and should otherwise
+ be left unset (or <literal>-</literal>). It is recommended to omit this, unless
+ a shell different <filename>/sbin/nologin</filename> must be used.</para>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Specifiers</title>
+
+ <para>Specifiers can be used in the "Name", "ID", "GECOS", "Home directory", and "Shell" fields.
+ An unknown or unresolvable specifier is treated as invalid configuration.
+ The following expansions are understood:</para>
+ <table>
+ <title>Specifiers available</title>
+ <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+ <colspec colname="spec" />
+ <colspec colname="mean" />
+ <colspec colname="detail" />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Specifier</entry>
+ <entry>Meaning</entry>
+ <entry>Details</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%b</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Boot ID</entry>
+ <entry>The boot ID of the running system, formatted as string. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>random</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%H</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Host name</entry>
+ <entry>The hostname of the running system.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%m</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Machine ID</entry>
+ <entry>The machine ID of the running system, formatted as string. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%T</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Directory for temporary files</entry>
+ <entry>This is either <filename>/tmp</filename> or the path <literal>$TMPDIR</literal>, <literal>$TEMP</literal> or <literal>$TMP</literal> are set to.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%v</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Kernel release</entry>
+ <entry>Identical to <command>uname -r</command> output.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%V</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Directory for larger and persistent temporary files</entry>
+ <entry>This is either <filename>/var/tmp</filename> or the path <literal>$TMPDIR</literal>, <literal>$TEMP</literal> or <literal>$TMP</literal> are set to.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%%</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Escaped <literal>%</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Single percent sign.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1>
<title>Idempotence</title>
- <para>Note that <command>systemd-sysusers</command> will do
- nothing if the specified users or groups already exist, so
- normally, there is no reason to override
- <filename>sysusers.d</filename> vendor configuration, except to
- block certain users or groups from being created.</para>
+ <para>Note that <command>systemd-sysusers</command> will do nothing if the
+ specified users or groups already exist or the users are members of specified
+ groups, so normally there is no reason to override
+ <filename>sysusers.d</filename> vendor configuration, except to block certain
+ users or groups from being created.</para>
</refsect1>
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