1️⃣6️⃣ Here's the 16th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd. #systemd257
Since systemd v245 there's the "userdb" subsystem in systemd. It's a modernized extension of the venerable UNIX user database, i.e. "struct passwd" and related structures.
userdb records are ultimately JSON structures, that can carry a lot more information than what /etc/passwd+/etc/shadow can carry. It's heavily used by systemd-logind, systemd-homed but generic and…
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@pid_eins Kind of off-topic, but jumping on the occasion, sorry. My understanding is that one could drop a user record for systemd-homed to create on first boot. However, I don't understand […]
@pid_eins possibly an uninformed question -- how does this relate to the AccountsService?
… can be integrated with other components too, both as a provider and a consumer of such records.
For more details about these user records see the docs:
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