Systemd Homed users and what does 'login' mean?
from luthis@lemmy.nz to linux@lemmy.ml on 26 Nov 2023 21:07
https://lemmy.nz/post/3789959

From homectl:

Home directories managed by systemd-homed.service are usually in one of two states, … when “active” they are unlocked and mounted, and thus accessible to the system and its programs; … Activation happens automatically at login of the user

What does ‘login’ mean? For example, I created a user and tried to su -l test, but I got: cannot change directory to /home/test.

What is required to ‘activate’ a homed directory if not a login shell?

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db2@sopuli.xyz on 26 Nov 2023 21:17 next collapse

Try using doas maybe

luthis@lemmy.nz on 26 Nov 2023 21:21 next collapse

Actually, I suspect ‘login’ refers to init and logind,

Back to the wiki to find out the steps during late userspace…

hunger@programming.dev on 26 Nov 2023 21:35 next collapse

It is the same as with all logins: It goes through the Pluggable Authentication Modules. So you need a service that uses PAM (they basically all do for a long time now) and the configuration of that service needs to include homed as an option to authenticate users. Check /etc/pam.d for the config files.

Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me on 27 Nov 2023 00:06 collapse 

sudo machinectl login the-user@localhost

That will handle all the PAM stuff as if you actually logged in.

Virulent@reddthat.com on 27 Nov 2023 00:26 collapse

You can also ssh into localhost as the user if you have that set up