[systemd-devel] Some questions on userdbd and providing a compatible service

[Dominik George]

Hi,

> (BTW; I kinda hope that one day systemd-homed could directly
> authenticate home directories via OIDC too. In fact, I want it so that
> you can just type in any OpenID identity on a login prompt, and this
> would authenticate a user and create a local homedir on the fly if
> needed.)

that's basically what I am building.

I guess my approach will be coming up with a custom Varlink interface
for PAM authentication and experiment with it.

> > But generally, are the fields in the User Record objects fixed, or can
> > I add my own fields? If I do, will they be ignored and passed on
> > verbatim, or stripped, or cause an error preventing the User Record
> > from being handled at all?
> 
> It's supposed to be extensible.
> 
> → https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/#extending-these-records

I'm surprisingly good at missing whole sections of the docs, even
after reading them more than once :o.

Thanks,
Nik
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