Systemd-homed

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Hi,

I red the article Unlocking the Future of User Management - Fedora Magazine about the new way to manage users home folder.

Can we have documentation about this new feature witch seams to be amazing?
Please add command examples to avoid questions.

Thanks a lot.

Nicky

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Added systemd-homed

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Afaik it is not ready yet.

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As usual, systemd has way more documentation than anyone would ever care to read. In this case you could for example look at https://systemd.io/CONVERTING_TO_HOMED/

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You can follow the work on making systemd-homed the default for Atomic Desktops here.

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I wonder what’s missing from the article. Article and comments to it contains all necessary details to create homed-managed users. It boils down to few commands to be run in CLI:

  1. Enabling systemd-homed (it should be enabled but still)
    sudo systemctl enable systemd-homed.service
  2. Enabling systemd-home PAM
    sudo authselect enable-feature with-systemd-homed
  3. Creating a homed-managed user with homectl. You can refer to homectl documentation to explore various options, e.g., adding FIDO2 with Yubikey, selecting filesystem type, setting home dir’s size, adding homed user to the wheel or any other group, etc.