systemd-userdb

Posted Apr 28, 2025 6:02 UTC (Mon) by pothos (subscriber, #116075)
Parent article: Addressing UID/GID drift in rpm-ostree and bootc

I think static assignment makes most sense for image based distros. With systemd-userdb a JSON record can be shipped as part of /usr and gets integrated with the system throught nss.
Ideally the package is the source of this but one can also generate it at image build time.