obsysusers

obsysusers parses and creates system users and groups, based on the file format and location specified in sysusers.d directories.

obsysusers is not a suitable substitute of systemd-sysusers, the format r is not supported.

Interface

obsysusers [ -h ] [ -z ] [ -v verbosity ] [ -d ] file(s)

obsysusers parses file and creates system users and groups based on the file where file can be found at /etc/sysusers.d, /run/syusers.d and /usr/lib/sysusers.d in this order of precedence. If file is not specified, obsysusers parses all files found on these directories.

Multiple files can be passed by seperating their names with a space.

Exit codes

• 0 success
• 100 wrong usage
• 111 system call failed

Options

• -h : prints this help.

• -z : use color.

• -v verbosity : increases/decreases the verbosity of the command.

  • 1 : only print error messages. This is the default.
  • 2 : also print warning messages.
  • 3 : also print tracing messages.
  • 4 : also print debugging messages.

• -d : dry run. Performs operation without altering system users and groups. All of the command's output will be prefixed by dry run do:.

Usage examples

Parses the bind.conf file and performs operation without creating system users and groups:

obsysusers -d bind.conf

Increases the verbosity and colorizes the output, parses all files and performs operation:

obsysusers -z -v4