catnest

A substitution for systemd-sysusers

Features

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

Installation

Available on eweOS

pacman -S catnest

To compile from source, simply run

cc catnest.c -o catnest

Differences from systemd-sysusers

• Support option 'u' and 'g' only, 'r' is ignored
• File path in ID field is not supported
• All GECOS need to be quoted (even it does NOT content a blank character)
• gshadow files are not completely supported, but catnest will append to it when needed. All existed group passwords will be ERASED.

About

catnest is a part of eweOS project, mainly developed by Ziyao.

The source is distributed under MIT License.

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