On Fri 16 Jun 2023 at 14:19:52 (+0200), Diego Fioravanti wrote: > I am not sure if this is a bug in Debian, expected behaviour or something > else, so I decided to write here before opening a bug. Maybe someone can > help me out and tell me if it is something I should report. > > I am using the official python docker image which builds out of Bullseye > (btw, this happens in bookworm too). Until yesterday when I ran `adduser > --system nonroot` it would populate `$HOME` with `/home/notroot/`. Today I > rebuilt the image and it is set to `/nonexistent`. Was this intentional or > is it a bug? I cannot find any reference to this change anywhere but maybe > I have missed something. If it was intentional I have to say that it > absolutely breaks python's ability to find the root for the current user. > In case it helps someone else, I switched to useradd -m and that fixed it.
Everything is laid out in /usr/share/doc/adduser/NEWS.Debian.gz and you were advised to read that in ยง5.2.7 of the Release Notes. Cheers, David.
