On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 12:17:14PM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > The common use case for this is the Fedora laptop user which in nearly every > case is going to have one local user account. > > I have always split /home from the rest of the system and I know others do > as well. I would rather see anaconda modified so that if I am creating a > user account at install time, check for /home/USERNAME and if USERNAME > matches and the UID and GID matches, just don't create the home directory. > That is, -M on useradd(8). Yeah, that's the other possible approach. But I think it's actually quite complicated to make this work reliably. Traditional UNIX accounts spread the information about the user over a bunch of files. Consistency must be maintained, UIDs and GIDs on disk must match, etc. We _could_ add the smarts to cover all that in Anaconda, but Anaconda developers are trying to simplify it, not add new complicated code. OTOH, homed was created with the idea of self-contained "homes" from the beginning, and systemd upstream is dedicating resources to make it work. (E.g., currently, a full-time developer working on integration of systemd-homed and GNOME on a grant from German STF.) So I think it's much more maintainable to just make use of this and let systemd upstream help with any bugs that we discover. The homed approach would make other things possible too. For example, sharing of /home in dual-boot scenarios. Right now a manual setup needs to be done, and login details need to be propagated each time, but with homed, dual-boot and reinstall are very similar scenarios, so if we get one to work, we get the other one for free. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
