From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:14:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: man: document that program invocation will fail if the User= does not exist X-Git-Tag: v245-rc1~109^2~12 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba96a8a2778c5deb20f1fd5b0cfd218f42c2ca11;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: document that program invocation will fail if the User= does not exist Fixes: #14565 --- diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml index 9d98b2b411f..bf17188ed24 100644 --- a/man/systemd.exec.xml +++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml @@ -221,12 +221,13 @@ Linux systems. When used in conjunction with DynamicUser= the user/group name specified is - dynamically allocated at the time the service is started, and released at the time the service is stopped — - unless it is already allocated statically (see below). If DynamicUser= is not used the - specified user and group must have been created statically in the user database no later than the moment the - service is started, for example using the - sysusers.d5 facility, which - is applied at boot or package install time. + dynamically allocated at the time the service is started, and released at the time the service is + stopped — unless it is already allocated statically (see below). If DynamicUser= + is not used the specified user and group must have been created statically in the user database no + later than the moment the service is started, for example using the + sysusers.d5 + facility, which is applied at boot or package install time. If the user does not exist by then + program invocation will fail. If the User= setting is used the supplementary group list is initialized from the specified user's default group list, as defined in the system's user and group