Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread George N. White III
my mail is delivered to a > Maildir in my home directory. But that's on the server anyway and I use > an IMAP client to connect to dovecot to get it. I don't have any user > files outside of my home on either the server or my local computers. > Homed, like systemd, addresses issues facing large o

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
nothing here that’s mandating that’s you use systemd-homed, this is to support portable home directories. Also, bringing up the Windows Registry is almost a trope for mailing lists at this point. Portable home directories (i.e. a homedir on a USB or network volume) are hard to do between sys

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 5/3/20 6:37 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Especially since there's plenty of stuff outside of your home directory that's tied to your userid and groupid. /var/spool/mail, for example. What is this plenty of stuff? That's one example. What else? Oh, I'm sure we'll

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/03/2020 02:49 PM, Mike Wright wrote: /run/user/ seems pertenant If memory serves, that's a virtual filesystem that gets created at boot and doesn't survive reboot or shut down. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/3/20 12:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/20 6:37 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Especially since there's plenty of stuff outside of your home directory that's tied to your userid and groupid. /var/spool/mail, for example. What is this plenty of stuff?  That's one example.  What else?

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/20 6:37 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Especially since there's plenty of stuff outside of your home directory that's tied to your userid and groupid. /var/spool/mail, for example. What is this plenty of stuff? That's one example. What else? Oh, we're not supposed read mail any more,

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/20 3:35 AM, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: Please use a different client that doesn't break threading. Or however you're doing header mangling. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
t-is- about-to-undergo-major-change/ This is a pretty wild claim: "A truly portable home directory Outside of including a much-improved security, systemd-homed will finally enable a truly portable home directory. Because the /home directory will no longer depend on the trifecta of sys

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Tim via users
major-change/ This is a pretty wild claim: "A truly portable home directory Outside of including a much-improved security, systemd-homed will finally enable a truly portable home directory. Because the /home directory will no longer depend on the trifecta of systemd, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow,

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Tim via users
Javier Perez: >> If we continue like this, soon Linux will have a "Registry" and >> "Registry Editor" Samuel Sieb: > Have you not heard of dconf and dconf-editor? They're pretty good > too. This must be some new definition of "good" that I haven't heard of. Let's go wading through a forest of

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
From: "Javier Perez" mailto:pepeb...@gmail.com>> Date: Sunday, 3 May 2020 at 08:02:29 To: "Community support for Fedora users" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Re: homed I wonder about that "encryption". They are encrypting MY home dir

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
From: "Javier Perez" mailto:pepeb...@gmail.com>> Date: Sunday, 3 May 2020 at 06:30:52 To: "Community support for Fedora users" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: homed Reading this article, I am beginning to really detest systemd Why do

Re: homed

2020-05-03 Thread Javier Perez
I wonder about that "encryption". They are encrypting MY home directories with a key that I do not know. I imagine it will be somewhat associated to my login password, but still, what could go wrong? On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 12:40 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-03 12:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: >

Re: homed

2020-05-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-03 12:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/2/20 9:29 PM, Javier Perez wrote: >> Reading this article, I am beginning to really detest systemd >> Why does it have to hang its tentacles on the home directory? >> >>

Re: homed

2020-05-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/2/20 9:29 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Reading this article, I am beginning to really detest systemd Why does it have to hang its tentacles on the home directory? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-management-is-about-to-undergo-major-change/ That sounds like it

homed

2020-05-02 Thread Javier Perez
Reading this article, I am beginning to really detest systemd Why does it have to hang its tentacles on the home directory? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-management-is-about-to-undergo-major-change/ If we continue like this, soon Linux will have a "Registry" and