Lennart Poettering on Nostr: These fields are consumed and acted on by systemd-logind, systemd-homed and other ...
These fields are consumed and acted on by systemd-logind, systemd-homed and other components of systemd.
One field is particularly interesting: it contains a field for the public SSH keys of an account (i.e. the stuff you traditionally find in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). By making it part of the user record itself it can be accessed and used by SSH without access to the home directory of the user.
One field is particularly interesting: it contains a field for the public SSH keys of an account (i.e. the stuff you traditionally find in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). By making it part of the user record itself it can be accessed and used by SSH without access to the home directory of the user.