Fix owner issues#21
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This was needed to handle special files such as /etc/passwd correctly.
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The current implementation has a huge oversight. If the uids in the image change, which they regularly do, they also change on the installed system.
This is a very big problem since it means that system services will not have access to the right folders in that case.
More information about this can be found here: Vanilla-OS/ABRoot#419
This PR is a complete rework of EtcBuilder which has logic that dynamically adds new users and groups from the image/lower dir. It also changes the owner and group of the lower files to adjust them to the specific system they're on.
A rework was needed since it would have been very messy to implement this with the old structure. The API does stay the same, except for the settings file for "special Files", which doesn't exist anymore.