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Message-Id: <201707051202.v65C2NDB005864@room101.nl.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:02:23 +0200
From: Casper.Dik@...cle.com
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: Daniel SkowroĊ„ski <daniel@...nf.net>
Subject: Re: systemd fails to parse user that should run service 



>2) If user name specified in systemd unit file is syntactically correct
>(according to systemd check) but user name does not exist then systemd
>refuse to start that unit.
>

Should systemd really valid usernames?  I would think that you would 
either use getpwnam(username) and if that fails you may then parse it as a 
numeric value.  If "0day" isn't a valid username according to getpwnam(), 
when converting it to a numeric uid should *also* fail because "0day" 
isn't a properly numeric value.

Casper

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