On Monday, December 2, 2019 9:48:05 AM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 11/27/19 2:59 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:39:59AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Mayyyybee systemd-homed is in > >> a position to solve this by having early enough authentication > >> capability by rescue.target time that any admin user can login? > > > > Actually, it may. Things are confusing here, because systemd-homed is > > implemented together with changes to how user metadata querying is done: > > instead of using dbus, a brokerless and much simpler varlink query is > > used. > > That last part is what would be relevant to early-boot logins, because > > less services need to be up to bring up the user session. > > There's one tricky feature of homed : remote login (ssh) is only > possible after an initial local login. It is OK for his intended use (a > personal laptop/tablet client), except for corner cases like a remotely > accessed personal desktop in the basement that might get rebooted e.g. > for updates, resulting in an accidental lockout. Basically, systemd-homed is useless for any power user, but might be useful for people just getting into GNU/Linux, who don't use ssh yet or don't have more than one system. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
