On May 3, 2020, at 00:30, Javier Perez <pepeb...@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-about-to-undergo-major-change/ > > 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. -- Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org>
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