From: Yu Watanabe Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:10:56 +0000 (+0900) Subject: JSON User/Group records: Add properties for UUIDs (#37024) X-Git-Tag: v258-rc1~844 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a5a667b1af25711b87c94a8f88a8dd3c1303400;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git JSON User/Group records: Add properties for UUIDs (#37024) It is useful to have stable and unique identifiers for a security principal. The majority of identitiy management systems in use with Unix systems today (e.g. Active Directory objectGUID, FreeIPA ipaUniqueID, Kanidm UUIDs) assign each account and group a unique UUID and exposing that to applications allows them to refer to accounts in a stable manner. At this time we are merely adding the properties to the user/group records. Adding ways to perform lookups by these IDs is left for a future PR. See [discussion](https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/114283987142625086) and [this comment](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/24032#issuecomment-2745246757). I'm sure there are wording aspects which could be improved, but I believe this is a reasonable initial stab at the problem. --- 7a5a667b1af25711b87c94a8f88a8dd3c1303400