Re: systemd fails to parse user that should run service

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f () gentoo org>]

On 07/06/2017 12:02 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 07/05/2017 11:58 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > systemd does have a (public, and publically-archived) mailing list, which
> > has a current thread on the subject of this issue.
> >
> > In particular the mail in that thread from Felipe Sateler, and some of
> > the discussion on the upstream bug, touches on reasons why neither
> > "if anything is not as expected, reject the whole unit" nor the current
> > behaviour is right. I suspect the resolution is likely to be something
> > in between.
>
> It would be useful with a reference to the thread in question so this
> can be further looked into.

I expect this is the post in question:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2017-July/039168.html
,

The post seems to be arguing, without much ambiguity, for a fatal error
on username not existing or not considered valid (which seems like
sensible behavior to me)

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