[HN Gopher] Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed
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       Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed
        
       Author : modinfo
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-08-03 02:00 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (systemd.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (systemd.io)
        
       | Valodim wrote:
       | > Please note that this specification assumes that JSON numbers
       | may cover the full integer range of -2^63 ... 2^64-1 without loss
       | of precision (i.e. INT64_MIN ... UINT64_MAX). Please read, write
       | and process user records as defined by this specification only
       | with JSON implementations that provide this number range.
       | 
       | Wait, so.. not javascript?
        
         | chao- wrote:
         | Interesting catch. Don't many desktop Linux utilities from the
         | GNOME project use JavaScript?
        
       | WCSTombs wrote:
       | > With the advent of systemd-homed it might be desirable to
       | convert an existing, traditional user account to a systemd-homed
       | managed one.
       | 
       | As someone unfamiliar with systemd-homed, I have a very basic
       | question: why would someone want (or not want) to do this?
        
         | ocdtrekkie wrote:
         | Based on... a web search:
         | https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-homed
         | 
         | The big thing appears to be moving the user metadata into the
         | home directory itself rather than it being around the system,
         | and enabling home folder encryption, which has been like... a
         | single button press feature on Windows since like Windows XP.
         | Sounds like a step forward.
        
           | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
           | I'm slightly confused. I understand the appeal to putting
           | user configuration inside the home directory, and I
           | definitely approve of encrypting each home directory
           | individually, but doesn't doing both of them together mean
           | that you can't read the user data until it's been decrypted?
        
       | sgarland wrote:
       | I don't understand the obsession with systemd managing
       | _everything._ I do not want it to manage my logs, NTP, DNS
       | resolution, and I sure as hell don't want it to manage  /home.
        
         | bluGill wrote:
         | I want something to manage home though. I shouldn't be unable
         | to access my files just because I'm on a different computer
         | from last time.
         | 
         | i'm not sure if that is what it does but I think that is a goal
        
         | strawhatguy wrote:
         | Yeah big nope on this. Needs to be separate, if it's useful at
         | all, not systemd "separate".
         | 
         | I don't run systemd at all, to be safe.
        
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