On Di, 27.05.25 14:32, Neal Gompa (ngomp...@gmail.com) wrote:

> The usage of the systemd user management suite has been discussed many
> times over the past several years. Unfortunately, it has been designed
> in such a way that it is impossible to square with central login
> services (like AD/IPA/krb5 logins).

systemd-userdbd and systemd-homed are two distinct things. Do not mix
them up.

samba merged supprt for the former 3 months ago:

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/2928

> Without a way to handle centralized login, we cannot consider any of
> it. On both Fedora KDE and Fedora Workstation, there are requirements
> to support GWS/Entra ID and AD/FreeIPA-based logins with local user
> storage. We discussed this in the Workstation WG several years ago[1]
> and it was even discussed here in devel@ last year[2] (with an LWN
> article to summarize it[3]).
>
> Right now, it's dead in the water without being able to handle the
> use-cases we need. So, we're likely to stick with the "legacy"
> file-based backend as our default until that situation is resolved.

Please read up on what's what.

Lennart

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