[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] treewide: replace nogroup with nobody

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Jul 18 12:19:09 UTC 2020


Norbert, All,

On 2020-07-17 23:52 +0200, Norbert Lange spake thusly:
> Use the recommended groupname for user nobody. One practical
> issue is that systemd-sysusers will otherwise create a
> nobody group with gid 999.
> 
> Quote: "If the username exists on a system,then they should
> be in the suggested corresponding group".
> 
> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/usernames.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Norbert Lange <nolange79 at gmail.com>

Applied to master, after expanding the commit log with more references.
Thanks!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
> v2:
> -   Undo whitespace changes in boa.conf
> ---
>  package/boa/boa.conf                 | 2 +-
>  package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk       | 2 +-
>  package/oracle-mysql/oracle-mysql.mk | 2 +-
>  package/systemd/systemd.mk           | 1 -
>  system/skeleton/etc/group            | 2 +-
>  5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/boa/boa.conf b/package/boa/boa.conf
> index e94029665f..f51c237316 100644
> --- a/package/boa/boa.conf
> +++ b/package/boa/boa.conf
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Port 80
>  # Group: The group name or GID the server should run as.
>  
>  User nobody
> -Group nogroup
> +Group nobody
>  
>  # ServerAdmin: The email address where server problems should be sent.
>  # Note: this is not currently used, except as an environment variable
> diff --git a/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk b/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk
> index 2a9b504eb8..cdd515e1a4 100644
> --- a/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk
> +++ b/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ define MOSQUITTO_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD
>  endef
>  
>  define MOSQUITTO_USERS
> -	mosquitto -1 nogroup -1 * - - - Mosquitto user
> +	mosquitto -1 nobody -1 * - - - Mosquitto user
>  endef
>  endif
>  
> diff --git a/package/oracle-mysql/oracle-mysql.mk b/package/oracle-mysql/oracle-mysql.mk
> index 1449c58e41..ccfa40cfb1 100644
> --- a/package/oracle-mysql/oracle-mysql.mk
> +++ b/package/oracle-mysql/oracle-mysql.mk
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ORACLE_MYSQL_CONF_OPTS += --without-debug
>  endif
>  
>  define ORACLE_MYSQL_USERS
> -	mysql -1 nogroup -1 * /var/mysql - - MySQL daemon
> +	mysql -1 nobody -1 * /var/mysql - - MySQL daemon
>  endef
>  
>  define ORACLE_MYSQL_ADD_FOLDER
> diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.mk b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
> index 8e01a0db5b..e88b559dbb 100644
> --- a/package/systemd/systemd.mk
> +++ b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
> @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += \
>  	-Dsulogin-path=/usr/sbin/sulogin \
>  	-Dmount-path=/usr/bin/mount \
>  	-Dumount-path=/usr/bin/umount \
> -	-Dnobody-group=nogroup \
>  	-Didn=true \
>  	-Dnss-systemd=true
>  
> diff --git a/system/skeleton/etc/group b/system/skeleton/etc/group
> index 76346b35f2..6822a277bf 100644
> --- a/system/skeleton/etc/group
> +++ b/system/skeleton/etc/group
> @@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ staff:x:50:
>  lock:x:54:
>  netdev:x:82:
>  users:x:100:
> -nogroup:x:65534:
> +nobody:x:65534:
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 

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