Why is systemD controversial?

• systemd

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  The systemd System and Service Manager

  

Think about that time a security warning was raised about the fact usernames starting with digits got treated as UIDs (e.g. 0foo would be interpreted as 0, elevating that user to root privileges). The creator then said it was working as intended and that it was the fault of other applications for not following the behaviour, rather than systemd for handling the ambiguity in a secure way with the mindset not all software is immediately secure. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

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  tmux source code

  

Telling developers to adopt SystemD APIs rather than being compatible with the standards: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• nosystemd.org

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  Website for arguments against systemd and further resources

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