martin f krafft [u] wrote on 10/10/2004 15:11:
I have an unclarity about the $HOME of daemon users in hook scripts:
If there is no directory that we could call $HOME for the daemon,
what to do? --no-create-home is definitely needed, and not
specifying --home yields /home/$DAEMON in /etc/passwd, which is
nonexistant. Is that preferred, or should something like
/nonexistant be used instead?
Thanks for any answers or pointers. The policy does not seem to care
about this. And neither does devel-ref state something along the
lines.
Most system users seem to set their home directory to the variable data
path their daemon uses. www-data uses /var/www, irc uses /var/run/ircd,
sshd uses /var/run/sshd. However hacluster (heartbeat) uses /tmp.
/tmp is also the recommended home directory for system users on Mandrake
and Redhat IIRC.
If the daemon doesn't have any run-time data which would belong in
/var/lib or /var/spool, I would say use /tmp.
Regards,
Sven
