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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 3c5d7c978c nss-systemd: remove useless define
We always define those two in configure, so no need to provide a fallback.
2016-10-22 18:39:08 -04:00
Lennart Poettering fd63e712b2 core: bypass dynamic user lookups from dbus-daemon
dbus-daemon does NSS name look-ups in order to enforce its bus policy. This
might dead-lock if an NSS module use wants to use D-Bus for the look-up itself,
like our nss-systemd does. Let's work around this by bypassing bus
communication in the NSS module if we run inside of dbus-daemon. To make this
work we keep a bit of extra state in /run/systemd/dynamic-uid/ so that we don't
have to consult the bus, but can still resolve the names.

Note that the normal codepath continues to be via the bus, so that resolving
works from all mount namespaces and is subject to authentication, as before.

This is a bit dirty, but not too dirty, as dbus daemon is kinda special anyway
for PID 1.
2016-08-19 00:50:24 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 2129011e92 nss-systemd: resolve root/nobody statically
Let's extend nss-systemd to also synthesize user/group entries for the
UIDs/GIDs 0 and 65534 which have special kernel meaning. Given that nss-systemd
is listed in /etc/nsswitch.conf only very late any explicit listing in
/etc/passwd or /etc/group takes precedence.

This functionality is useful in minimal container-like setups that lack
/etc/passwd files (or only have incompletely populated ones).
2016-08-04 23:08:05 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 409093fe10 nss: add new "nss-systemd" NSS module for mapping dynamic users
With this NSS module all dynamic service users will be resolvable via NSS like
any real user.
2016-07-22 15:53:45 +02:00