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At the All Systems Go conference in Berlin 20-22 September, Lennart Poettering proposed a new extension to systemd, systemd-homed.service. A video of his session can be downloaded from media.ccc.de with accompanying slides [PDF].
In his presentation, Poettering outlines a number of problems he sees with the current system, like /etc needs to be writeable, UIDs need to be consistent across systems, and lack of encryption and resource management.
His goals with the proposed solution are migrateable and self-contained, UID-independent home directories with extensible user records that unify the user's password and encryption key; LUKS locking on system suspend; and Yubikey support.
He identifies a number of problems this new idea could cause with SSH logins, disk space assignments, UID assignments, and LUKS locking.
He plans to introduce JSON user records that can be queried via a Varlink interface and to a certain extent are convertible to and from existing formats. The home directories will be stored as LUKS-encrypted files that will be managed by the proposed new service, systemd-homed.service. The system integration will be supported by pam_systemd and systemd-logind.service.
It will be interesting to see how the world responds to this new take on systemd's ever-increasing encroachment of Linux.
... and lastly, this story is brought to you from a systemd-free laptop.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @01:42PM (7 children)
RMS died for their sins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:35PM (6 children)
RMS also ate his own toejam, and apparently now he is also one of Epstein's buddies.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:40PM (2 children)
Epstein dindu nuffin.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:47PM (1 child)
Maybe he didn't, maybe they all blew him willingly. But that's not what matters here.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @07:39PM
Well, what the fuck DOES matter?? It's been all downhill since Kennedy died. Has anything changed dramatically? No, it's the same old bullshit since the Gulf of Tonkin...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Pav on Monday September 23 2019, @07:51AM (2 children)
Epstein? Er, no... RMS was defending a dead friend, a friend who couldn't defend himself. Minsky had slept with one of Epsteins girls... they call it statuatory rape, which it was... but apparently she was legal in Boston, Mass where Minsky was living. Considering the blackmailing of the powerful that Epstein was involved in, I wonder what the angle was with Minsky. Other power seekers certainly benefited by pushing RMS aside.
I don't think many doubt RMS is on the spectrum and misses much of the emotional content of things he talks about, which unfortunately makes him a poor politician in some ways. His defense of Minsky was certainly a fail. He understands loyalty though obviously, which is often a strength of many on the aspergers spectrum. and has a conception of freedom which I've benefited from massively. He has certainly proved to be a visionary in his domain of expertise.
(Score: 1) by Remmy on Monday September 23 2019, @11:38AM (1 child)
Only thing... No one has stepped forward saying Minksy did sleep with the Epstein girl... Only story so far is that a girl offered herself to him and he turned her down.
(Score: 2) by Pav on Monday September 23 2019, @01:25PM
Her deposition said she had been forced to have sex with him. While it's true that she could have lied, I'd say it's more likely she's being truthful.
The problems people have are that she was 17 which was statuatory rape in the juristiction they were currently in, and that no 17yr old girl would have offered themselves to Minsky in any case... and Minsky should have known that - therefore he committed sexual assault. Stallmans argument was that he didn't think Minsky was the kind of guy to have sex with someone against their will, and he believed she may have presented herself as being entirely willing (even if Epstein had privately pressured her). Stallman also argued Minsky might not have been aware of the age of consent was different to where he lived (16 in Boston).