Lennart Poettering on Nostr: The latter is particularly interesting for systems such as systemd-homed where the ...

The latter is particularly interesting for systems such as systemd-homed where the home directory of the user is generally not accessible until the user logs in because it is encrypted with a key that has to be provided by the user.

With v257 the field becomes interesting for one further aspect: systemd-nspawn's --bind-user= switch (which makes a host user available inside the spawned container, and works by copying a restricted JSON user record into the contianer) will now include…