Debian
systemd package

  1. Bug #2004092
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 2004092

Revision history for this message
Nick Rosbrook (enr0n) wrote :

> I think it is a bug in systemd to be bypassing the process
> specified in Debian Policy.

Note that systemd specifies its own UID/GID "spec" here: https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS/.

I think assigning 999 to systemd-journald conforms with both systemd's and Debian's policy, no? The systemd-journal group is a system group, and the GID is dynamically allocated (by systemd-sysusers, not adduser). See [1][2] for systemd-sysusers documentation.

It seems that fixing casper is correct, because statically/explicitly allocating a UID/GID in that range *is* in violation of both Debian's and systemd's policies.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sysusers.html
[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d.html