On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 03:11:40PM +0200, Bastien Roucaries wrote: > > > Le 31 juillet 2015 18:10:32 GMT+02:00, Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]> a écrit : > >On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:20:26AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 16:49:58 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > >> > >> > Package: lintian > >> > Version: 2.5.33 > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > lintian shows the following error: > >> > E: ntp: > >maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home > >postinst:23 > >> > > >> > However, it's called like this: > >> > ntp.postinst: adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntp > >--no-create-home ntp > >> > > >> Looks to me like lintian is right, and you should set ntp's $HOME to > >> something like /nonexistent instead of /home/ntp. > > > >The message it gives is very confusing. > > It is corrected under next version (you could get a glimpse at gît)
Thanks, I think it's more clear now. It wasn't obvious to me that if you use --system you also need to use --home, and that --home shouldn't point to somewhere in /home, but it does actually say that. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
