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Systemd Homed users and what does 'login' mean? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

sudo machinectl login the-user@localhost

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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