BOOTC-SYSUS...YNC.SERVICE(5)

✨ NAME ✨

bootc-sysusers-shadow-sync.service — it's a systemd service, bestie, and it's living in section 5 of the File Formats Manual (iykyk, the fancy manual section). Say hi 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: this systemd service goes in and removes orphaned and duplicate entries from /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow — and it does it before systemd-sysusers.service runs. Not after. BEFORE. Timing is everything, periodt. ⏰

Here's the tea, and it's giving messy 🫖 — if users or groups get dropped out from the pristine /etc or /usr/lib copies of passwd or group, and those users or groups still have systemd-sysusers entries? Yeah. Then it's fully possible that stale data lurking in the shadow files will cause systemd-sysusers to straight up fail. Not a vibe. 😭

So this service handles it: it runs before systemd-sysusers.service and it trims that stale data. Cleanup era. Obsessed. 🧹✨

Heads up though — this service is only enabled on ostree and composefs boots. On conventional package-managed systems it has no effect. Like, zero. If that's you, this page is not about you, no offense, you're still iconic. 🌸

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Go read these too, bestie, they're all connected:

• bootc(8)
• bootc-systemd-generator(8)
• systemd-sysusers.service(8)
• lckpwdf(3)

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

v1.17.1 — that's the one, that's the version 💜

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K byeee, that's the whole page! 🦋 This was BOOTC-SYSUS...YNC.SERVICE(5) from the File Formats Manual, running version v1.17.1, and you absolutely ate by reading the whole thing. Slay, bestie, go fix your shadow files 💅🌈⭐