Hi, This one time, at band camp, Andreas Barth said: > > 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.)
Where would you suggest? I can't think of a better place, in the absence of direction, than /home. If packages rely on the presence of a home directory, it's up to them to ask for a sensible one. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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