Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]> writes: > On December 19, 2025 4:19 pm, Maximiliano Sandoval wrote: >> As per 'homectl --help': >> >> --prompt-new-user: Query user interactively for user to create >> >> which will wait on stdin to get the credentials for the new user, but at >> this point there is no way for the user to enter such input and the >> container will not start. >> >> One could alternatively remove the unit file from the >> 'systemd-firstboot(1)' step, but this incantation has valid use-cases >> like recognizing a existing homes on firstboot. > > 1. this makes no sense in the commit message ;) > 2. I don't think homed integration makes a lot of sense for a system > container, and would rather skip it altogether
I would say it is up to the user. Someone might use this for some service to quickly populate their config/state or create new users for services with systemd credentials, I would prefer not to disable this option if it can be so easily patched to not require stdin. -- Maximiliano
