Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
by 5e92cb50239222b on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:20AM
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> If you absolutely could not write to /etc, then you would never be able to change your password.
Since we're talking about Linux, I would refrain from using absolute clauses like "never".
systemd-homed allows you to create "portable" user profiles which contain everything pertaining to a particular user, including his password. So user profiles (including your files, etc) can be moved between computers simply by rsync'ing that directory, or putting it on a network share.
`homectl passwd` (which changes a portable user's password) does not require writable /etc.
I think I've seen a few other solutions like that.
Since we're talking about Linux, I would refrain from using absolute clauses like "never".
systemd-homed allows you to create "portable" user profiles which contain everything pertaining to a particular user, including his password. So user profiles (including your files, etc) can be moved between computers simply by rsync'ing that directory, or putting it on a network share.
`homectl passwd` (which changes a portable user's password) does not require writable /etc.
I think I've seen a few other solutions like that.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-homed
https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/