Bug ID 1176401
Summary [WSL] missing group nobody which is used by quite some tools
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component WSL
Assignee sle-ms@suse.de
Reporter lubos.kocman@suse.com
QA Contact qa-c@suse.de
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Blocker ---

I was just trying to get openvpn working on my TW WSL image and it failed on
the fact that the group nobody is missing. I've checked and user nobody is
missing as well.

lkocman@DESKTOP-DESO8KI:/etc/openvpn> sudo openvpn --config heroes.conf.UDP
[sudo] password for root:
Thu Sep 10 11:54:38 2020 OpenVPN 2.4.8 aarch64-suse-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)]
[LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Oct 30 2019
Thu Sep 10 11:54:38 2020 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1g  21 Apr 2020, LZO
2.10
Enter Auth Username:lkocman
Enter Auth Password:
Thu Sep 10 11:54:46 2020 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow
this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Thu Sep 10 11:54:46 2020 failed to find GID for group nobody
Thu Sep 10 11:54:46 2020 Exiting due to fatal error
lkocman@DESKTOP-DESO8KI:/etc/openvpn> groupadd nobody

I think we should add it to make it more convenient for users so they can get
most of it. 

Workaround:
lkocman@DESKTOP-DESO8KI:/etc/openvpn> sudo groupadd -g 65534 nobody
lkocman@DESKTOP-DESO8KI:/etc/openvpn> sudo useradd -s /bin/false -G nobody -u
65534 nobody

This applies to both TW and Leap images.


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