Hi all,
I'm packing for travel today, so unfortunately I'm not fully read up on the
thread. However, I wanted to leave a comment about this so that the
conversation is informed by it
There are ongoing conversations between the GDM devs, KDE/SDDM/PlasmaDM
devs, and systemd upstream about "upstream
Hi Thorsten,
> > I am confident you did not read my proposal.
>
> I did read it, but you started right from the beginning with a
> technical solution without explaining the problem you want to solve.
> Reverse engineering the problem from a proposal is pretty hard and
> leads most of the time to
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM Dominik George wrote:
>
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> > But this is also the advantage: since it is so old, everything out
> > there in the world is supporting it. If you come with a systemd only
> > solution: there are also systems without systemd, and ISVs will not
> > suppo
Hi Thorsten,
> But this is also the advantage: since it is so old, everything out
> there in the world is supporting it. If you come with a systemd only
> solution: there are also systems without systemd, and ISVs will not
> support two solutions. So whatever you plan, make sure it can be
> called
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM Dominik George wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> currently, the userdb system only allows querying for User Records and
> Group Records, hence providing a modern replacement for NSS.
>
> I would like to propose an addition to make it support authentication as
> well. The addition
Hi Erin,
thanks for the feedback!
> Whatever such a protocol ends up looking like, I think “you could replace
> pam_systemd_home with a generic UserDB PAM module and said generic protocol”
> is an important criterion
Yep.
Please note that I am specifically targeting the PAM auth call (and
pro
So you’ve brought something up that has certainly been ticking over in the back
of my mind for a long time. I’m roughly 90% certain that the user DB interface
is
indeed the right extension point for hooking authentication systems into the
system
(And would be a better one than having to write a
Hi,
currently, the userdb system only allows querying for User Records and
Group Records, hence providing a modern replacement for NSS.
I would like to propose an addition to make it support authentication as
well. The additions to the io.systemd.UserDatabase Varlink interface
are:
```varlink
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