Package: dracut-core
Version: 106-5
When building a initramfs with dracut as a non-root-user the cpio step
fails:
cpio: etc/gshadow: Cannot open: Permission denied
cpio: etc/shadow: Cannot open: Permission denied
The systemd-sysusers step creates 000 shadow and gshadow files, which
causes a non-root-user to fail to try to read those files, failing the
whole dracut initramfs building.
This could be considered a bug in systemd-sysusers, but can easlily be
worked around by:
--- /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/60systemd-sysusers/module-setup.sh.orig
2025-03-20 15:09:38.537420997 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/60systemd-sysusers/module-setup.sh
2025-03-20 15:09:40.093398782 +0100
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@
inst_sysusers basic.conf
systemd-sysusers --root="$initdir"
+
+ chmod 640 "$initdir"/etc/shadow "$initdir"/etc/gshadow
}
//Anton
