People do have usernames with dots, and it makes them very unhappy that systemd
doesn't like their that. It seems that there is no actual problem with allowing
dots in the username. In particular chown declares ":" as the official
separator, and internally in systemd we never rely on "." as the seperator
between user and group (nor do we call chown directly). Using dots in the name
is probably not a very good idea, but we don't need to care. Debian tools
(adduser) do not allow users with dots to be created.
This patch allows *existing* names with dots to be used in User, Group,
SupplementaryGroups, SocketUser, SocketGroup fields, both in unit files and on
the command line. DynamicUsers and sysusers still follow the strict policy.
user@.service and tmpfiles already allowed arbitrary user names, and this
remains unchanged.
Fixes#12754.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
ISO C does not allow empty statements outside of functions, and gcc
will warn the trailing semicolons when compiling with -pedantic:
warning: ISO C does not allow extra ‘;’ outside of a function [-Wpedantic]
But our code cannot compile with -pedantic anyway, at least because
warning: ISO C does not support ‘__PRETTY_FUNCTION__’ predefined identifier [-Wpedantic]
Without -pedatnic, clang and even old gcc (3.4) generate no warnings about
those semicolons, so let's just drop __useless_struct_to_allow_trailing_semicolon__.
