[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] support/scripts/mkusers: allow option for system uid/gid

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Sep 16 06:53:14 UTC 2020


Hello,

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:29:24 +0200
Norbert Lange <nolange79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, this was touched upon (both points), see [1].
> 
> System users exist as concept on all distros an observable effects are for
> ex journald spawning a separate logging stream.

Right, thanks for the additional feedback.

> So no, it's not just cosmetics, and yes I'd make system user the default.

Agreed.

Did you compare your implementation with the one proposed by Stephan
earlier ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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