Re: PSA: Systemd will kill PostgreSQL

--On 11. Juli 2016 13:25:51 +0800 Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Perhaps by uid threshold in login.defs?

systemd's configure.ac has this:

AC_ARG_WITH(system-uid-max,
AS_HELP_STRING([--with-system-uid-max=UID]
[Maximum UID for system users]),
[SYSTEM_UID_MAX="$withval"],
[SYSTEM_UID_MAX="`awk 'BEGIN { uid=999 } /^\s*SYS_UID_MAX\s+/ {
uid=$2 } END { print uid }' /etc/login.defs 2>/dev/null || echo 999`"])

so yes, it's the definition from there.

> But then what happens for people
> who're managing users via a directory, who need to avoid conflicting with
> host-local UIDs, but also need some of those users to have systemd
> "system user" like behaviour?

We had this in the past in some setups and this would add another reason
for unexpected headaches...

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Thanks

Bernd