Re:A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
by tetromino_ on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:51AM
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> Why cannot groups be applied to the user instantly?
Good question! I've wondered about this before too, ought to research it.
> Is hostname the only thing with such problem, the only gui-configurable system-wide setting?
Of course not :) Systemd provides a half-dozen similar daemons for configuring things; hostnamed is probably the simplest one of them, so I was trying to justify why so much engineering went into something that looks so trivial: it's because the approach is generic.
The idea is that a non-systemd system could reimplement some of these daemons (or rather, their dbus interface; you could implement them in one executable if you want) - and the parts of a standard control panel application relevant to your system would just work.
Good question! I've wondered about this before too, ought to research it.
> Is hostname the only thing with such problem, the only gui-configurable system-wide setting?
Of course not :) Systemd provides a half-dozen similar daemons for configuring things; hostnamed is probably the simplest one of them, so I was trying to justify why so much engineering went into something that looks so trivial: it's because the approach is generic.
The idea is that a non-systemd system could reimplement some of these daemons (or rather, their dbus interface; you could implement them in one executable if you want) - and the parts of a standard control panel application relevant to your system would just work.