* Stephen Gran (sg...@debian.org) [120702 13:25]: > Policy says packages can't rely on the layout of /home/ > Some packages invoke adduser --system without the switch --home > In this case, adduser creates a user with $HOME under /home/
Question now is how bad is "directory created unter /home" really. Is this RC? > There is so far no evidence that these packages rely on the presence of > that directory I would tend to say that if packages don't need $HOME they should set something like --no-create-home. > Now, I don't agree that this is a bug in adduser - I think this is a bug > in packages invoking adduser. I think the right way to do this is a > mass bug filing on those packages. I think I disagree here. If we have a switch on adduser "--system" saying that the user to be created is a system-user, I tend to think that adduser should then select an appropriate place to create $HOME. (I wouldn't mind if we say that for the upcoming release, this still is within /home, and we fix that for the next stable release.) Only if we find out that there is no appropriate place to create such home directories by default, then I think we should ban the behaviour - which would be mass bug filing, and then, also by force breaking unfixed code. (Definitly something for the next cycle.) However, if possible, I think I would prefer to get system home directories created somewhere useable by default. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
