Frantisek Sumsal 36a9875c1d sysusers: gracefully handle existing group in /etc/gshadow
systemd-sysusers currently skips entries for groups that already exists.
However, if a group exists only in /etc/gshadow and not in /etc/group,
systemd-sysusers panics:

~# groupdel sgx
~# systemd-sysusers; echo $?
Creating group 'sgx' with GID 106.
0
~# systemd-sysusers; echo $?
0
~# sed -i '/sgx/d' /etc/group
~# systemd-sysusers; echo $?
Creating group 'sgx' with GID 106.
/etc/gshadow: Group "sgx" already exists.
1

To fix this, let's mirror the logic from the user path
(write_temporary_shadow()) where we simply drop the user from the "todo"
queue if it already exists in /etc/shadow instead of throwing an error.
2026-08-04 08:17:04 +09:00
…
2026-07-08 08:23:04 +02:00
2026-04-18 14:24:47 +01:00
2026-06-17 09:59:34 +00:00
2025-06-05 14:39:20 +02:00
2026-03-06 08:55:55 +01:00
2025-10-07 13:00:12 +01:00
…
2026-07-28 19:46:34 +09:00

Systemd

System and Service Manager

OBS Packages Status
Semaphore CI 2.0 Build Status
Coverity Scan Status
OSS-Fuzz Status
CIFuzz
CII Best Practices
Fossies codespell report
Translation status
Coverage Status
Packaging status
OpenSSF Scorecard

Details

Most documentation is available on systemd's website.

Assorted, older, general information about systemd can be found in the systemd Wiki.

Information about build requirements is provided in the README file.

Consult our NEWS file for information about what's new in the most recent systemd versions.

Please see the Code Map for information about this repository's layout and content.

Please see the Hacking guide for information on how to hack on systemd and test your modifications.

Please see our Contribution Guidelines for more information about filing GitHub Issues and posting GitHub Pull Requests.

When preparing patches for systemd, please follow our Coding Style Guidelines.

If you are looking for support, please contact our mailing list, join our IRC channel #systemd on libera.chat or Matrix channel

Stable branches with backported patches are available in the stable repo.

We have a security bug bounty program sponsored by the Sovereign Tech Fund hosted on YesWeHack

Repositories with distribution packages built from git main are available on OBS, and also repositories with packages built from the latest stable release

S
Description
systemd patched fork
Readme Cite this repository
409 MiB
Languages
C 88.5%
Shell 5.7%
Python 4.6%
Meson 1.1%