Re: system-homed coming at ya suckers

[Carlos E.R.]

On 13/12/2020 13.45, Henning Hucke wrote:
> On 2020-12-11, John McCue <jmc...@obsd2.mhome.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> I did a little reading, I think the user needs to exist on
>> the system already. But I wonder about the case were I
>> happen to know a regular User ID on another system and I set
>> up a separate USB drive to become that user ?
>> [...]
>> Still, I do not geit, nor do I have to get it since
>> I doubt I would enable homed.
>
> At the moment I've no source informations at hand but as far as I
> remember (early concept papers for) systemd-homed it should even be
> cryptogarphicly secured (who can use a homed user on a system and which).
>
> But... I personally would never like to mix up my private and my
> professional (read: at work) home so what stays around is just to
> have a home at your desktop which you can take with you with your laptop.
> Nonetheless I personally use a networked home which is the same on all
> the machines at home. To marry this concept with the one of homed is
> neither easy nor trivial.
> But like with all software for unices or - to be more precise -
> following the unix principle: as long as you can also run without it
> it's all fine. It becomes problematic of you are forced to use it or
> even /only/ suffer mentionable disadvantages.
>
> So all in all: If systemd-homed turnes out to be another "tool" which
> one /can/ use it's all ok. If it turnes out to become something without
> which you can't run *something* it will be evil.

My understanding is that it is simply an option.
So no big deal, nothing to argue about :-)


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Cheers, Carlos.