systemd-sysusers, systemd-sysusers.service — Allocate system users and groups
systemd-sysusers [OPTIONS...] [CONFIGFILE...]
systemd-sysusers.service
systemd-sysusers creates system users and groups, based on the file format and location specified in sysusers.d(5).
If invoked with no arguments, it applies all directives from all files
found in the directories specified by
sysusers.d(5).
When invoked with positional arguments, if option
--replace= is specified, arguments
specified on the command line are used instead of the configuration file
PATHPATH. Otherwise, just the configuration specified by
the command line arguments is executed. The string "-" may be
specified instead of a filename to instruct systemd-sysusers
to read the configuration from standard input. If only the basename of a file is
specified, all configuration directories are searched for a matching file and
the file found that has the highest priority is executed.
The following options are understood:
--root=root¶Takes a directory path as an argument. All
paths will be prefixed with the given alternate
root path, including config search
paths.
--replace=PATH¶When this option is given, one ore more positional arguments
must be specified. All configuration files found in the directories listed in
sysusers.d(5)
will be read, and the configuration given on the command line will be
handled instead of and with the same priority as the configuration file
PATH.
This option is intended to be used when package installation scripts are running and files belonging to that package are not yet available on disk, so their contents must be given on the command line, but the admin configuration might already exist and should be given higher priority.
Example 1. RPM installation script for radvd
echo 'u radvd - "radvd daemon"' | \
systemd-sysusers --replace=/usr/lib/sysusers.d/radvd.conf -This will create the radvd user as if
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/radvd.conf was already on disk.
An admin might override the configuration specified on the command line by
placing /etc/sysusers.d/radvd.conf or even
/etc/sysusers.d/00-overrides.conf.
Note that this is the expanded from, and when used in a package, this would be written using a macro with "radvd" and a file containing the configuration line as arguments.
--inline¶Treat each positional argument as a separate configuration line instead of a file name.
--cat-config¶Copy the contents of config files to standard output. Before each file, the filename is printed as a comment.
--no-pager¶Do not pipe output into a pager.
-h, --help¶--version¶