Package: adduser Version: 3.145 Severity: minor Hi,
this occurred to me: root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-etqw:/srv# mkdir /var/lib/foo root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-etqw:/srv# adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/foo foo warn: The home directory `/var/lib/foo' already exists. Not touching this directory. warn: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/foo' does not belong to the user you are currently creating. root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-etqw:/srv# Having a system account that has a home directory is a not so uncommon idiom. I think that for adduser --system, the "home directory already exists" message shold not be displayed. The "does not belong to the user" message is also bad at this place. If the package ships the actual directory (because there is already default contents in there), the directory still exists as root:root before it can be chowned to the correct user. Adding --no-create-home turns off both messages, but that would need that nearly all packages saying --home would also need to say --no-create-home. What does the team think about this? Greetings Marc
