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.