On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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. >
As another datum point, this is a fairly newly installed Debian 11 system, the only user in /home is the single human user on this system. This is a full GNOME desktop so has services running. I'd anticipate that everything service related would now be under /etc or /etc/default/ All best, as ever, Andy Cater
