systemd systemd-homed.service 8 systemd-homed.service systemd-homed Home Area/User Account Manager systemd-homed.service /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-homed systemd-homed is a system service that may be used to create, remove, change or inspect home areas (directories and network mounts and real or loopback block devices with a filesystem, optionally encrypted). Most of systemd-homed's functionality is accessible through the homectl1 command. See the Home Directories documentation for details about the format and design of home areas managed by systemd-homed.service. Each home directory managed by systemd-homed.service synthesizes a local user and group. These are made available to the system using the User/Group Record Lookup API via Varlink, and thus may be browsed with userdbctl1. systemd1, homectl1, userdbctl1