From e4245133f4bae0b5bc394b1a90b710dcee862751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rohan Kumar <rohaan@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:00:02 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix (project-clone) : update user_setup script to modify
 `/etc/passwd` permissions/ownership

Update user_setup script to not make `/etc/passwd` group writable

Signed-off-by: Rohan Kumar <rohaan@redhat.com>
---
 build/bin/user_setup | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build/bin/user_setup b/build/bin/user_setup
index 1e36064cb..2616a7538 100755
--- a/build/bin/user_setup
+++ b/build/bin/user_setup
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ mkdir -p ${HOME}
 chown ${USER_UID}:0 ${HOME}
 chmod ug+rwx ${HOME}
 
-# runtime user will need to be able to self-insert in /etc/passwd
-chmod g+rw /etc/passwd
+chmod g-w /etc/passwd
 
 # no need for this script to remain in the image after running
 rm $0