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Make an entry in /etc/group when we modify /etc/passwd
To ensure that the user running in the container ahs a valid entry in /etc/passwd so lookup functions for the current user will not error, Podman previously began adding entries to the passwd file. We did not, however, add entries to the group file, and this created problems - our passwd entries included the group the user is in, but said group might not exist. The solution is to mirror our logic for /etc/passwd modifications to also edit /etc/group in the container. Unfortunately, this is not a catch-all solution. Our logic here is only advanced enough to *add* to the group file - so if the group already exists but we add a user not a part of it, we will not modify that existing entry, and things remain inconsistent. We can look into adding this later if we absolutely need to, but it would involve adding significant complexity to this already massively complicated function. While we're here, address an edge case where Podman could add a user or group whose UID overlapped with an existing user or group. Also, let's make users able to log into users we added. Instead of generating user entries with an 'x' in the password field, indicating they have an entry in /etc/shadow, generate a '*' indicating the user has no password but can be logged into by other means e.g. ssh key, su. Fixes containers#7503 Fixes containers#7389 Fixes containers#7499 Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon <[email protected]>
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