Lennart Poettering on Nostr: 1️⃣6️⃣ Here's the 16th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming ...
1️⃣6️⃣ Here's the 16th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd.
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…
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…