Re: [opensuse-packaging] no more nobody user on OBS?

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 16:47 +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:

Hi,

seems that Tumbleweed and Factory has no more user "nobody" defined in /etc/passwd. Is this wanted?

cu, Rudi

That is indeed wanted - the list of users has constantly been growing and for many users/groups, it is/was not clear what requires them. So Thorsten worked on a way to change this - and packages nowadays have to specify if their content wants a specific user/group to be present. See also the packaging guidelines at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Users_and_Groups Cheers, Dominique