On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:44:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package > > account created with its home directory in /home/package, as it is > > adduser --system's default btw. I am therefore faced with having to > > change /home to some non-/home place. Unfortunately, policy does not > > give any hint about how to do it right. > > > > Where do I put my user's home directory? In this case, the user's home > > directory contains a .ssh with known_hosts, authorized_keys and actual > > keys and it might additionally accumulate some regular dotfiles. > > I'd go with /var/lib, which is what most packages do. I don't count > the user-specific stuff to be package configuration, in general.
.ssh is used to log in to another system running my package, it holds manually created authorized_keys and keys. I'd call that configuration. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120701125613.gf25...@torres.zugschlus.de
