Re: Reducing reliance on "legacy" user-group store(s) like /etc/{passwd,group}

2025-05-28 Thread Pramod V U via devel
On Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 at 12:46 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 28.05.25 09:43, Alexander Bokovoy (aboko...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > There > > are few issues with userdb API implementation. For example, there is an > > assumption only one responder knows the information about the a

Re: Reducing reliance on "legacy" user-group store(s) like /etc/{passwd,group}

2025-05-27 Thread Pramod V U via devel
On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 11:41 PM, Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote: > I wonder how this is going to play out in containers with user configs if > "/etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow}" becomes legacy. Not in containers, just normal "desktop" systems only. -- __

Re: Reducing reliance on "legacy" user-group store(s) like /etc/{passwd,group}

2025-05-27 Thread Pramod V U via devel
On Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 at 2:43 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > systemd-userdbd and systemd-homed are two distinct things. Do not mix > them up. I understand. I meant to point out that systemd-userdbd is the central for querying all users and groups. AND that systemd-homed exposes itself

Reducing reliance on "legacy" user-group store(s) like /etc/{passwd,group}

2025-05-27 Thread Pramod V U via devel
I am extremely sorry if I am posting to the wrong mailing list, kindly point that out to me if that's the case. I'll be referring to /etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow} as "legacy file bundle" or "legacy bundle" or "legacy file(s)" systemd-userdbd.service is a service included in systemd, which:

Re: Userspace VT consoles in copr

2025-04-24 Thread Pramod V U via devel
I am sorry to repeat it for the 3rd time, But for a "stupidly minimal" stack, cage, weston etc... all exist with foot, weston-terminal, etc... You will be solved of many problems small and big, once the *only* stack is the wayland stack (maybe different protocols, but the same libraries). All c

Re: Userspace VT consoles in copr

2025-04-22 Thread Pramod V U via devel
Sorry for poking in, but why have kmscon, a complete re-implementation, run over then DRM when a generic and well-tested combination of a wayland compositor and a terminal emulator, like cage+foot, do the work just as well? Yes, setup is initially difficult. But it might be worth it. An addition

Self Introduction: pramodvu1502

2025-03-11 Thread Pramod V. U. via devel
I would like to be a package maintainer for fedora. Plz reply and ask for whatever other info you need. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350109 My review request https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pramodvu1502/systemd-cron/ My copr https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron Up