15 Sep
2020
15 Sep
'20
4:35 p.m.
On Tuesday 15 September 2020 11:08:23 am Felmon Davis wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
Quote:
"All user-specific records are stored within a JSON formatted file called
~/.identity which is cryptographically signed with a key out of the users
control."
..."out of the users control"...
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Welcome to Big Brother?
Seriously, homed says my data is not mine. Worse, if homed borks, then I've
lost ALL my data.
This reply from the linked article, also seems to be relevent:
Quote:
Better not to give in to conspiracy-theory
thinking here. I believe a
simpler proportion is at work.
there may be truth in some of this but it seems a bit like
thread-drift - perhaps retraction of apfelstrüdel must be considered;
how does this relate to systemd-homed?
it seems systemd-homed brings precisely the benefit which Kate
mentioned is lacking in our usual way of moving 'home'; she wrote:
"I don't understand why this is even needed?! I can already move home
directories without a problem. Been doing it for years. I just make
sure to use the same user on the same distro, same etc. Works
perfectly. Or I save key settings (konq bookmarks, FF bms, etc) it's
so easy after that to just retheme to spec."
I take it with systemd-homed one doesn't get trapped by shifting UIDs
and such. they write (partial quotation),
"Linux assigns UIDs in the order usernames are registered on a
machine. you may get UID 1000 if you are the first user on a laptop
and you could get 1001 on another laptop if you are the second user to
be registered there. This poses a problem if you move a home directory
container from machine A where you're UID 1000 to machine B where you
are 1001. systemd-homed solves this by doing a chown -R on the entire
home directory if there is a conflict. [...]"
I once fell athwart of that! not to mention that 'home' gets encrypted.
why isn't this a net bonus? systemd-homed solves this by doing a chown -R on the
entire home directory
if there is a conflict.
Riiiiight.
I'm supposed to trust you to know what my home directory permissions are
supposed to be?
Are you fucking crazy?"
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Background on this is that, especially in a developer's system, it's frequent
to have files owned by different users and groups within your home. homed is
just going to overwrite all that.