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someone2639

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Registered: 2022-01-27

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systemd-homed: How to register existing user from an external drive?

I have an external USB drive with a systemd-homed home area on it as a .homedir file (created with `homectl create someone2639 --image-path=/mnt/2639/someone2639.homedir`) , and I'm trying to figure out how to use it on another Arch install. As a primer, this is what `ls` on the mounted drive shows, to confirm it has a `.homedir` file:

$ ls -l /mnt/2639
total 7784176
-rw------- 1 root root 7970992128 Jan 27 00:37 someone2639.homedir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 computer computer        959 Jan 24 22:32 homed_startup.sh

From what I can see, `homectl` only has the option to create a brand new home area, or update existing home areas, and running `homectl` on its own shows that it only sees my current local user:

$ homectl
NAME     UID   GID   STATE  REALNAME    HOME            SHELL    
computer 60316 60316 active computer    /home/computer /bin/bash

1 home areas listed.

Is there a way to get systemd-homed to make a user based on an existing homedir? Thanks in advance

Last edited by someone2639 (2022-01-30 19:32:21)