On May 3, 2020, at 00:30, Javier Perez <pepebuho(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Reading this article, I am beginning to really detest systemd....
Why does it have to hang its tentacles on the home directory?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-management-is-a...
If we continue like this, soon Linux will have a "Registry" and "Registry
Editor"
The article is pretty overblown, I suggest reading the upstream documentation.
https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
... and
https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/
Keep in mind, there’s nothing here that’s mandating that’s you use systemd-homed, this is
to support portable home directories. Also, bringing up the Windows Registry is almost a
trope for mailing lists at this point.
Portable home directories (i.e. a homedir on a USB or network volume) are hard to do
between systems that aren’t using a shared directory or mandated account data.
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are painful to manage for portable homedirs for users. I don’t
agree with everything here but I think it’s an interesting new approach and I’m very
interested in many of the user record features.
I think it’s be awesome to be able to walk up to a system and plug in my USB key and have
it securely handle my homedir and account information. I think security would be a complex
issue to solve.
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Jonathan Billings <billings(a)negate.org>