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Oh no! Lennart Poettering wants to systemd-ize the Unix home directory system? Not only is this unnecessary, it’s going to end poorly by making Unix home directories unnecessarily tedious for little people, while the big institutions are going to just keep using nsswitch to apply their own personal favorite of SSS (only used by Red Hat), LDAP (used by almost everyone), vas3 (used only by a few obscure large institutions), and others.

20201123/https://thenewstack.io/systemds-lennart-poettering-wants-to-bring-linux-home-directories-into-the-21st-century/