control: tag -1 +moreinfo [2016-12-15 09:07] Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> > > part text/plain 1199 > Package: dh-sysuser > Version: 1.3 > Severity: wishlist > > I think that, under certain circumstances, users should be completely > removed along with their $HOME directory when the package is purged.
See #840469 for discussion, why deleting $HOME is troublesome. If you can propose principled solution -- it would be great. In short: - postrm has access only to essential tools - What if there is something valuable is in $HOME? What if sysadmin made some obscure thing, link `ln -sf / $HOME'? - What do to with files outside of of $HOME? - What about uid sharing? I install torrent client, purge it (files must stay, you know). Now I install webserver, and it owns my downloaded files. Wrong. For now dh-sysuser does not pretend to do something big. You just create user, optionally with home directory and run some server with this user. Shell, password, ... are irrelevant. I am okay with making it one-stop solution, but I do not know how to achive it. -- X-Web-Site: https://sinsekvu.github.io | Note that I process my email in batch, Accept-Languages: eo,ru,en | at most once every 24 hours. If matter Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff | is urgent, you have my phone number.
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