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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] What can even possibly go wrong?
Le 12/03/2020 à 11:25, Martin Steigerwald a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> Just a little rant and feel free to ignore it.
>
> systemd-homed… I hope none of it is ever implemented to elogind.
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-homed.service.html
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> https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/
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> (just count the lines of that one… its utterly complex stuff)
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> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/homectl.html
>
> NIH syndrome & what can even possibly go wrong?
>
> I believe it is just a question of time until the first *grave* security
> issue with that is revealed.
>
> And the intended application of it: To use the own home directory on
> different laptops? Why… at all… would I? Especially when one of those
> laptops would be a device that I have otherwise no control over? I'd say
> either I installed the laptop with Linux and thus trust it *or* it does
> not ever see my $HOME.
>
> But right on… extend Systemd until absurdity… maybe more people will see
> the insanity in it.
>
> Best,


    It might be considered a provocation to gratuitously generate such
compexity/junk and take control over the user/owner. What's the next
step? systemd-instagram and instagram-ctl? Require a Facebook account to
create a user home?

    Many systemd afficionados of today would have laughed with us if
these projects had ever been proposed 10 years ago. They will now accept
them withouth question.

        Didier