[systemd-devel] CoreOS Goal Question: Should we be aiming to be able to boot with an empty /etc?

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 07:35:54PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > But dynamically allocating system users per-boot and ensuring that
> > /etc and /var matches would still be interesting.
> 
> Uh, yeah, there's still the question out there what to do with fully
> dynamic throw-away UIDs, for example so that gdm could allocate a UID
> for each seat when showing login prompts dynamically. This is going to
> be really hard, since after dropping a UID again one needs a good way to
> drop all files and other objects the user created before handing out the
> same UID again, and I do not see how we could deal with that properly.

 It smells similar to what Android is doing - separate UID per app.

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