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SYSTEMD-HOMED

As we write this the latest (version 245) is making its way into the repos of more adventurous distros. Of its many new stands out, as it (optionally) revolutionises home directories. Traditional static directories work fine for some people and some purposes, but these are problematic for things like network shares and require one type or another of ugly hack to successfully encrypt. also takes care of user management, so that $HOMEs under its control are completely self-contained and portable. A compliant LUKS2 volume on a USB stick, or with a file of the form username.home in the /home directory, will be seamlessly mounted in the usual place upon production of the correct credentials. If the system is suspended it will be locked again.

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