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• Post #998802

  Let me be cheeky and preempt @pid_eins's systemd 259 posts: In systemd 259, I'm making it possible to run commands that need privileges as your current user instead of as root. With "run0 --empower", you'll get a session as your current user in which you can do anything that root would be able to do, without actually being root. This is very useful when you need to run something with privileges but still want all created files and directories to be own...

• Post #985082

  Finally had a go at solving one of my biggest pet peeves with booting up Linux, having to add console=ttyS0 or console=hvc0 or console=<god-knows-what> to the kernel command line to get output on the serial console. With https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41387, systemd-stub will now try to auto-detect whether a single virtconsole or serial console is attached without graphics output and append console= to the kernel command line automatically so you get output on the serial c...

• Post #675663

  @pid_eins started his series again so let me add an entry. In v260, I've added support for delegating UID ranges to containers from nsresourced and mountfsd. This allows nested containers to acquire their own UID ranges from nsresourced without needing to set up /etc/subuid inside the container. You can also easily enter a user namespace now with the foreign UID range mapped in to create container rootfs trees for use with transient UID ranges from nsresourced. #systemd260 #systemd