Re: strawman proposal: homed directories for users

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On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 01:20:40PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> It's fairly normal these days that the users are self-contained and
> otherwise local, *except* for login credentials. This use-case is
> important to support because this is pretty much how business laptops
> need to work.
> 
> In the long past, the dichotomy was clearer: you either had local
> users with local storage, or centrally managed users with remote
> storage. But nowadays it's always local storage, just with either
> local authentication or remote authentication. This also includes
> being able to cache remote authentication records (e.g. SSSD) for
> brief offline periods for logging in anyway.
> 
> So from my point of view, homed *should not* be incompatible with this
> use-case, even though it currently is.

I would just use normal users for that case. This functionality is
not going away and there would be no benefit from somehow shoehorning
remotely-defined users into systemd-homed.

Zbyszek
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