User=0day considered harmful in systemd

Posted Jul 17, 2017 11:30 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: User=0day considered harmful in systemd by davidstrauss
Parent article: User=0day considered harmful in systemd

Anyone have any idea how many unit files rely on specifying a numerical UID for User= ? I bet few to none.

Systemd introduced a huge disruption to the Linux init system. Saying we have to keep supporting numerical UIDs in the User= directive seems pretty silly to me.

User=0day considered harmful in systemd

Posted Jul 18, 2017 0:35 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

> Saying we have to keep supporting numerical UIDs in the User= directive seems pretty silly to me.

certainly having an /etc/systemd/system.conf config option to disable numerical UIDS in User= would be welcome.
Shouldn't take too many lines of code, and creating a pull request on github is fairly easy.