On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 07:57:44AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 11:14:45AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > how can I tell the debhelper scripts to not install home directories > > for system services in /home (managed on a remote host in my environment), > > but to use /var/lib instead? > > > That sounds like potentially buggy behavior. Can you give a specific > example?
Out of curiosity, I checked my system to see if there were any system users with home directories under /home. The only one I found is "ntp". Then I looked at the ntp.postinst script, and it has this: adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntp --no-create-home --home /nonexistent ntp So presumably my ntp user with /home/ntp as its home directory is from an older Debian release, and if it had been created under bullseye, it would look different. Granted, I have only my specific subset of Debian packages installed, and there could be others that still make system user home directories in /home. We'll have to await further details from the OP.
