Bug#976960: systemd: Please package systemd-userdb and systemd-homed

Andrea Pappacoda andrea at pappacoda.it
Thu Jan 28 17:42:46 GMT 2021


Followup-For: Bug #976960
Package: systemd
Version: 247.2-5

I think that systemd-homed should be packaged from Debian
just for the simple reason of giving users choice.

> I still fail to see the use-case for homed, tbh and the current
> implementation still requires quite a few hacks (see the fosdem 2020
> talk of Lennart and the problems e.g. with SSH keys).

For example I have a persistent live system installed on a USB stick
that I share with some friends. Full disk encryption would be hard to implement
and not that useful, and it would be better to encrypt on a per-user basis. 
SSH is not an issue in this case, since a USB stick does not need to be 
accessed remotely.

I know that this is not the most common use case, but giving the user choice 
and not imposing anything controversial by default is a better approach, in my opinion.


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