On 12/03/2020 10:25, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 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
>
> https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/
>
> (just count the lines of that one… its utterly complex stuff)
>
> 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,

Here we go again, reinventing the wheel ;-)

Windows has something similar, they call it roaming profiles and that
has its problems.

Why does it need over 21 thousand lines of code to do what I can do with
small bash scripts and pam-mount ?

Rowland