BTW, I think this may be related to this subject, so...
I've found some user account (other than nobody) that have /var/empty as their home directory, f.e.: gnu/services/networking.scm:301 (define %ntp-accounts (list (user-account (name "ntpd") (group "nogroup") (system? #t) (comment "NTP daemon user") (home-directory "/var/empty") (shell #~(string-append #$shadow "/sbin/nologin"))))) Is that a glitch, and they can be moved to /nonexistent or do they really require an existing directory to work ? -- Vincent Legoll