bootc-base-imagectl: add --nobody-99 for use with --sysusers

The `nobody` user/group is special and can't be driven from a sysusers
dropin because Fedora's systemd has a compiled-in default value
for naming the overflow user that same name and that always takes
precedence.

The problem is that due to legacy and cargo-culting, we have to deal
with a bunch of systems with the `nobody` user set to 99:99 that we
can't just ignore. We need to migrate those, but for now at least to
make `--sysusers` usable in these environments, let's add a new hidden
`--nobody-99` option which defines _only_ that entry in the hardcoded
passwd/group. This _is_ respected by systemd-sysusers.

See also: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1201
See also: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7717

bootc-base-imagectl

@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ def run_build_rootfs(args):
         override_manifest['documentation'] = False
     if args.sysusers:
         override_manifest['sysusers'] = 'compose-forced'
-        override_manifest['check-passwd'] = {'type': 'none'}
-        override_manifest['check-groups'] = {'type': 'none'}
+        passwd_mode = 'nobody' if args.nobody_99 else 'none'
+        override_manifest['variables'] = {'passwd_mode': passwd_mode}
 
     tmp_manifest = None
     if override_manifest:
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     build_rootfs.add_argument("--add-dir", help='Copy dir contents into the target', action='append', default=[], metavar='DIR')
     build_rootfs.add_argument("--no-docs", help="Don't install documentation", action='store_true')
     build_rootfs.add_argument("--sysusers", help="Run systemd-sysusers instead of injecting hardcoded passwd/group entries", action='store_true')
+    build_rootfs.add_argument("--nobody-99", help=argparse.SUPPRESS, action='store_true')
     build_rootfs.add_argument("source_root", help="Path to the source root directory used for dnf configuration (default=/)", nargs='?', default='/')
     build_rootfs.add_argument("target", help="Path to the target root directory that will be generated.")
     build_rootfs.set_defaults(func=run_build_rootfs)

minimal/check-passwd-nobody.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+check-passwd:
+  type: "file"
+  filename: "passwd-nobody"
+check-groups:
+  type: "file"
+  filename: "group-nobody"

minimal/check-passwd.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+check-passwd:
+  type: "file"
+  filename: "passwd"
+check-groups:
+  type: "file"
+  filename: "group"

minimal/group-nobody

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# this is used with the --nobody-99 option for backwards compatibility with
+# systems that had nobody set to 99
+nobody:x:99:
+nfsnobody:x:65534:

minimal/manifest.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ metadata:
 
 edition: "2024"
 
+variables:
+  passwd_mode: full
+
 # Be minimal
 recommends: false
 

minimal/passwd-nobody

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# this is used with the --nobody-99 option for backwards compatibility with
+# systems that had nobody set to 99
+nobody:x:99:99:Kernel Overflow User:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
+nfsnobody:x:65534:65534:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/usr/sbin/nologin

minimal/postprocess-conf.yaml

@@ -24,9 +24,14 @@ etc-group-members:
   - tss # https://issues.redhat.com/browse/BIFROST-618
   - adm
 
-check-passwd:
-  type: "file"
-  filename: "passwd"
-check-groups:
-  type: "file"
-  filename: "group"
+conditional-include:
+  - if: passwd_mode == "full"
+    include: check-passwd.yaml
+  - if: passwd_mode == "nobody"
+    include: check-passwd-nobody.yaml
+  - if: passwd_mode == "none"
+    include:
+      check-passwd:
+        type: "none"
+      check-groups:
+        type: "none"