please send a tested and documented patch On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 02:11:58PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > From: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Bug#668740: dsc-statistics-{collector, presenter}: creates > system > user in /home > To: Marc Haber <[email protected]>, [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:11:58 +0200 > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) > Gecko/20120506 Icedove/3.0.11 > X-Spam-Score: (/) 0.0 > X-Spam-Report: torres.zugschlus.de > > Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > ---- ---------------------- ------------------------------------------- > > severity 668740 serious > retitle 668740 dsc-statistics-{collector, presenter}: creates system user in > /home > thanks > > Hi Marc, > > I hope the new description of the problem makes the issue more clear: > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package creates a system user > with a home directory in /home/$SYSUSER, which is a policy violation. > > The FHS (which is part of the policy) states: > "/home : User home directories (optional)" > "/home is a fairly standard concept, but it is clearly a site-specific > filesystem. The setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no > program should rely on this location." > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#HOMEUSERHOMEDIRECTORIES > > System users are usually placed in /var/lib. > > Possible problems that can arise in case /home is a remote file system: > * the local root user may not be allowed to write to /home > * $SYSUSER may have different UIDs on different hosts > > > Andreas
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