[Buildroot] [PATCH] skeleton: add "operator" group
Jérôme Pouiller
jezz at sysmic.org
Thu Oct 29 10:08:50 UTC 2015
On Wednesday 28 October 2015 23:35:15 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Jérôme" == Jérôme Pouiller <jezz at sysmic.org> writes:
> > gid 37 was referenced in /etc/passwd but not in /etc/group
> > Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz at sysmic.org>
> > ---
> >
> > system/skeleton/etc/group | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/system/skeleton/etc/group b/system/skeleton/etc/group
> > index ba20e90..c813da2 100644
> > --- a/system/skeleton/etc/group
> > +++ b/system/skeleton/etc/group
> >
> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ video:x:28:
> > audio:x:29:
> > tape:x:32:
> >
> > www-data:x:33:
> > +operator:x:37:
> Committed, thanks.
>
> I guess this means it wasn't used anywhere? Perhaps we should better
> remove the user/group?
In fact, I think many users/groups are useless. According to [1] and
after checked groups used by udev:
- groups "wheel", "operator", "staff", "lock", "netdev" and users
"operator", "sync" can been safely removed
- I think users/groups "daemon", "bin" and "sys" are now obsolete and
can also been removed
- "mail" and "www-data" should only exist if an MTA/webserver is
enabled.
- udev use "input" group (currently "input" group exist only if
systemd is enabled)
- group of /etc/shadow should be "shadow"
In add, since skeleton is now a real package we may define users and
groups using SKELETON_USERS variable instead of maintaining
passwd/group/shadow.
I can do these changes if there is a consensus on it.
[1]
http://wiki.gacq.com/index.php/Debian_default_system_groups_description
BR,
--
Jérôme Pouiller, Sysmic
Embedded Linux specialist
http://www.sysmic.fr
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