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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: 4, Funny) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:02PM (5 children)
He plans to introduce JSON...
Oh my dog! We're doomed!
Why don't we just let Trump (sorry) write the code from now on? He'll write the best code, beautiful code... did nothing illegal
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by chromas on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:44PM (3 children)
If we could just get Trump to tweet something positive about it, systemd could be completely done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:49PM
GamerGate 3.11 for Workgroups
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:39PM
Maybe in the virtue signaling world, but not in the real world.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @07:29PM
The new systemd nazid.
It spams your console with messages, that are mostly random racist rants and threats to steal your small children and babies, and put them into cages. But, every 3rd message goes on for pages about how great systemd nazid is. "The best, the greatest, no bedbugs, and with totally normal sized hands." And, "orange is the bestest, most bigliest color there is, hater."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 23 2019, @04:47AM
Never apologize for being beautiful... and having the best ideas really.