What I know so far about systemd-homed service is basically what I read in these --
https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-homed
https://www.howtogeek.com/673018/sys...rectory-works/
https://linuxreviews.org/Systemd-homed

I am yet to play with ubuntu 20.04 which bundles this with systemd 245 (I will, in a week or so and add to the conversation), but if any of you have been using this, I would be very much interested in your opinion about it, specially in regards with -

a. Enterprise application - This does not play well with users logging in over ssh or so the links claim. (at the time of writing)
b. /home mounted on a NFS location: It is possible to set up /home on a nfs server (or NAS box) and then use autofs to mount it when it is reqd(when the user logs in). What happens in those cases ?
c. Users managed by AD/LDAP etc - AD keeps the record of UID/GID anyway, so what's the point of keeping that again in .identity ?
d. Anything else you think about it.


Love it ? hate it ? Meh about it ?

hate systemd and everything about it. causes so many troubles and does things on it's own under the hood requiring extensive knowledge to fix. screw it and people who advocated it and accepted it to debian, redhat, centos, ubuntu.

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Dislike systemd also, (I always look for distros that don't use it), &, from what I've read, too much software is being written with hooks into it for my liking.

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This is a solution to a problem nobody has... just like systemd itself.

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I don't like it either. I disable it, along with other parts of systemd.

See:
man systemctl
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-homed

99.9% of Systemd haters run
non-free hardware. ROTFL

With humans "unimaginable tracks of time" has become a thing of the past...

Some people use Linux, some use a computer.

I change my source list to Sid (or download that .iso) and make things happen.

Now get off my lawn, there's snakes in their!

This pretty much nails it.

Sure, I've had a laptop that had multiple users defined on it: myself, a 'postgres' account for a local database owner/dba (also me while I'm wearing my Pg dba hat), an http account owning a local Apache instance for hosting HTML-based documentation, etc. I suspect, though, that that is not the use case that ol' Lennart is thinking about and which I'm not sure I "get" the purpose of on a laptop. I'll need to see an example of how and why this is a good thing to even be doing. My personal take is that it smells like something Windows-inspired.

Whatever its intended purpose, I haven't seen it yet. My sole Tumbleweed-based system is running "245" but I haven't noticed it in the system services utility part of YaST and haven't seen anything "homed"-related anywhere. (To be honest, I'm not looking real hard for it.) Maybe the OpenSUSE folks are watching out for us. :^D

As another Opensuse user (15.1), I appreciate that.

Please explain. AFAIK, there is no "non-free" hardware here.
You're nuts! I prefer to keep my sanity by running software which works properly and allows me to work efficiently.
*there.

There are two large, fundamental problems with this:

Whoever designed this "feature" clearly doesn't use ssh. I have boxes everywhere running Linux. I use OpenVPN with ssh to administer them with my laptop. They all do different jobs and exist in geographic locations which are up to 30 miles apart. I can't live without remote ssh access to those machines. It is just not practical to spend the day driving between sites.

The second problem:

Well that certainly seems like very poor design choice. That's being polite. I can't say what I wanted to say because I'd get banned from here.

I'm sorry, but I fail to see any practical use for this "feature" outside of a closed university-style computer lab. It certainly has very little appeal in the business world, IME. You can call me a hater all you like... I just want to get stuff done.

E.g., https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-...esigns.en.html
...no Systemd here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/standalone

More runs for me (like: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6129050) on Sid than LTS i.e. older software.
The reason it's stable is because no one's working on it, which means it's not progressing?

But, a non-opinion is we all use computers differently. Perhaps why more developers are going Systemd?

If you don't need a service don't activate it. Simple.
Applies to lots of things.

This is a solution in certain scenarios - and an obstacle in all others.

No one needs a computer in the first place but they do make automating aquaponics easier, seems y'all keep having babies!

Blobs complaining about blobs. LL

That explains a lot.
Hey, I use computers to make life easier for myself... don't want to have to deal with sh_t nobody can debug because it's Too Darn Complicated™.

"WONTFIX!"

Yeah, well, you can keep it.