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Reinventing Home Directories Let's bring the UNIX concept of Home Directories into the 21st century

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by Lennart Poettering At: FOSDEM 2020 https://video.fosdem.org/2020/K.3.201/rhdlp.webm The concept of home directories on Linux/UNIX has little changed in the last 39 years. It's time to have a closer look, and bring them up to today's standards, regarding encryption, storage, authentication, user records, and more. In this talk we'll talk about "systemd-homed", a new component for systemd, that reworks how we do home directories on Linux, adds strong encryption that makes sense, supports automatic enumeration and hot-plugged home directories and more. Room: K.3.201 Scheduled start: 2020-02-02 11:00:00

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  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 1:41 Problems with Home Directories
  3. 9:35 Home Directories focus
  4. 10:27 Home on a stick
  5. 17:39 Selfcontained
  6. 30:32 UUID Assignments
  7. 32:42 Locking
  8. 38:16 JSON User Records
  9. 43:12 Concept B
  10. 44:37 Questions
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