shared/user-util: allow usernames with dots in specific fields

People do have usernames with dots, and it makes them very unhappy that systemd
doesn't like their that. It seems that there is no actual problem with allowing
dots in the username. In particular chown declares ":" as the official
separator, and internally in systemd we never rely on "." as the seperator
between user and group (nor do we call chown directly). Using dots in the name
is probably not a very good idea, but we don't need to care. Debian tools
(adduser) do not allow users with dots to be created.

This patch allows *existing* names with dots to be used in User, Group,
SupplementaryGroups, SocketUser, SocketGroup fields, both in unit files and on
the command line. DynamicUsers and sysusers still follow the strict policy.
user@.service and tmpfiles already allowed arbitrary user names, and this
remains unchanged.

Fixes #12754.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/dbus-socket.c b/src/core/dbus-socket.c
index e895c94e12..25d3d71391 100644
--- a/src/core/dbus-socket.c
+++ b/src/core/dbus-socket.c
@@ -277,10 +277,10 @@ static int bus_socket_set_transient_property(
                 return bus_set_transient_fdname(u, name, &s->fdname, message, flags, error);
 
         if (streq(name, "SocketUser"))
-                return bus_set_transient_user(u, name, &s->user, message, flags, error);
+                return bus_set_transient_user_compat(u, name, &s->user, message, flags, error);
 
         if (streq(name, "SocketGroup"))
-                return bus_set_transient_user(u, name, &s->group, message, flags, error);
+                return bus_set_transient_user_compat(u, name, &s->group, message, flags, error);
 
         if (streq(name, "BindIPv6Only"))
                 return bus_set_transient_bind_ipv6_only(u, name, &s->bind_ipv6_only, message, flags, error);