Update of bug #61083 (project findutils):
Severity: 3 - Normal => 1 - Wish
Assigned to: None => berny
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Follow-up Comment #1:
First of all, updatedb does not use 'nobody' - it is the wrapping script
on the particular system which calls it with the --localuser=nobody option.
Then, su(1) is the portable way of switching the user.
setpriv(1) is part of util-linux and therefore probably not available
on other platforms like the BSDs, Solaris, etc.
AFAIK the systemd folks also re-invented the wheel for good old cron,
and they are recommending to use systemd-timer instead. I'm not sure
whether that would solve that problem wrt/ destroying sessions though.
Still, managing sessions is a problem far outside of the GNU findutils,
and IMO should therefore be fixed or worked around that problem there.
Thus said, if a system is using systemd, but running cron causes problems
there when switching the user, then my suggestion is to already run the cron
job as a dedicated, non-privileged user, and avoid using the --localuser
option in the wrapping script.
I'm hereby changing the severity to "wish", and chances are we can close
this issue soon as "platform issue" or "working as intended".
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