Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 00:54:39 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > On 9/10/19 4:25 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure. It's what qmail always has done and what the eclass > > also did. > > This is suggested by the qmail documentation, > > http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#create-users > > ...but goes back to at least 1998, and likely earlier. I grepped the > source and don't see any obvious uses of $HOME. It was probably > suggested by DJB simply because it's a directory, and guaranteed to > exist on the various platforms that qmail supported at the time.
I have tested it without a home directory on 2 of my machines and it seems like it works fine. I have removed the home directory from the patches. Greetings, Eike
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