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> systemd-homed now makes use of UID mapped mounts for the home areas. If the kernel and used file system support it, files are now internally owned by the "nob
by nyanpasu64 5y ago
> systemd-homed now makes use of UID mapped mounts for the home areas. If the kernel and used file system support it, files are now internally owned by the "nobody" user (i.e. the user typically used for indicating "this ownership is not mapped"), and dynamically mapped to the UID used locally on the system via the UID mapping mount logic of recent kernels. This makes migrating home areas between different systems cheaper because recursively chown()ing file system trees is no longer necessary.
I wish it was possible to pull a hard drive from one Linux system, and plug it into another, and mount the ext4/etc. partitions in a "removable" mode which ignores permissions and mismatched UIDs, and grants full access to the files without needing to be root.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoYou can set an ACL on the appropriate mount point to grant all users in an arbitrary group rwX permissions.