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Autor: Didier Kryn
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] ..the D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future ... albeit with broken SSH login
Le 27/09/2019 à 11:45, Dan Purgert a écrit :
> On Sep 27, 2019, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> Le 27/09/2019 à 00:25, Steve Litt a écrit :
>>> Show of hands: Who ever perceived a problem with using /etc/passwd,
>>> /etc/shadow, and /etc/group? They just worked .
>>
>>     Imagine a computer with no user, just root, and an empty /home
>> directory. You plug in your USB disk and, automatically, your disk is
>> mounted under /home /and you become a user of this laptop/ - no need
>> to have root priviledge and enter your name and password in the
>> database. There's nothing precious on the computer, except the
>> contents of /your/ disk.
> So, now we're implicitly trusting $distro to maintain security for us,
> and $initsystem to not include a small hook to send telemetry back to
> $distro?


    Sorry, I don't understand (~: didn't we /explicitely/ expect that
from *nix, Linux, sysv-init, rc scripts, etc?

    Didier