allow configuration of users

[ente76]

Syncthing allows to synchronize file ownership data. To be usable, a users of same UID/GID must exist in both systems.

A configuration table asking for username, uid, gid would be necessary to provide the information. Minimum UID /GID of 1_000 should be applied.

In run.sh users would have to be created/deleted according to configuration. Syncthing would keep running as root in order to fully support all ownership/rights combinations.

[salim-b]

Syncthing allows to synchronize file ownership data. To be usable, a users of same UID/GID must exist in both systems.

I don't think the latter sentence is true.

To cite from Syncthing's documentation about syncOwnership's Unix implementation:

Syncthing records both the numerical UID and GID for a file and the corresponding user and group names, when they are known. When applying ownership Syncthing will first attempt to look up a local user or group with the given name, and if that fails it will fall back to the numerical UID and GID.

For syncOwnership to properly work, Syncthing must run with elevated permissions, e.g. as user root. This is the case for the Home Assistant add-on.

[ente76]

So you corrected minor details but you won't do anything else? The actual issue stays untouched?

[salim-b]

I might misunderstand you, but I don't think there's an "actual issue" here. What's wrong with Syncthing using numerical UID/GID for syncOwnership?