On Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 12:38 Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh,
>
> I've already read that the local database for users does not have to
> be openldap but systemd userdb. I'm discovering a lot of functionality
> I'm not aware of.
>
> Looking at manpage of systemd-homed.
> Still issues:
>
> - what is userdb actually? Is a it ldbm database?
>

A bunch of .json files, if I remember correctly. (AFAIK it's very much
meant for "one/few users per system" setups, not like LDAP.)


> - howto deal with usernames which are email addresses? You know Linux
> internally does not support a @ in a name.


No, it definitely does.

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