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?

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzOP
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    11 months ago

    Actually, I suspect ‘login’ refers to init and logind,

    Back to the wiki to find out the steps during late userspace…