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Autor: Dan Purgert
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] ..the D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future ... albeit with broken SSH login
On Sep 27, 2019, Didier Kryn wrote:
> 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?


Oops, I meant "systemd" not, "$initsystem".

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