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catnest

A substitution for systemd-sysusers

Features

  • Small size (less than 500 cloc), single file
  • systemd-free
  • Mostly POSIX compatible

Installation

Available on eweOS

pacman -S catnest

To compile from source, simply run

cc catnest.c -o catnest

Differences from systemd-sysusers

  • catnest doesn't create users or groups mentioned in 'm' entires implicitly.
  • File paths in ID field are not supported
  • All GECOS strings need quotation, even if they do NOT contain a blank character)
  • gshadow files are not completely supported, but catnest will append to it if necessary. All existed group passwords will be ERASED.

About

catnest is a part of eweOS project, mainly developed by Yao Zi <[email protected]>.

The source is distributed under MIT License.

For more information about the configuration file, see the manual of systemd-sysusers.