Creating system users and system groups

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 14:05:06 UTC 2017


On 02/02/2017 06:36 AM, Simon Fels wrote:
> Hey Till,
>
> That is (as far as I know) not possible today. Those groups and users
> have to exist beforehand. A similar problem also exists for LXD. There
> is a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1606510 which has a
> few more details.
>

OK, I have added my user/group wishes to that bug report now.

    Till

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Comment to the bug report:

I also would need some system users/groups in Ubuntu Core:

User "avahi" and group "avahi" for an avahi-daemon snap (needed for CUPS 
and cups-browsed)

Group "lpadmin" for CUPS snap (Group "lp" and user "lp" are already there)





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