On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:39:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > So, the existence of /home/ntp on the OP's system, or any system > installed from a Debian release prior to the last 4-ish years, could be > attributed to some process or series of actions that decides, "hey, this > ntp user's home directory is missing, I should create it". Whether > those actions be manual or the result of some script or service, that > seems the most likely way for that directory to appear on a system.
We haven't heard back from the OP yet. We don't know what packages and/or directories they're talking about. In my case, there *isn't* an actual /home/ntp directory. It's just specified in /etc/passwd as the user's home directory.
