On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:44:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package > account created with its home directory in /home/package, as it is > adduser --system's default btw. I am therefore faced with having to > change /home to some non-/home place. Unfortunately, policy does not > give any hint about how to do it right. > > Where do I put my user's home directory? In this case, the user's home > directory contains a .ssh with known_hosts, authorized_keys and actual > keys and it might additionally accumulate some regular dotfiles.
I'd go with /var/lib, which is what most packages do. I don't count the user-specific stuff to be package configuration, in general. % getent passwd | grep /var/lib gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh libuuid:x:100:101::/var/lib/libuuid:/bin/sh statd:x:102:65534::/var/lib/nfs:/bin/false dictd:x:107:114:Dictd Server,,,:/var/lib/dictd:/bin/false postgres:x:111:121:PostgreSQL administrator,,,:/var/lib/postgresql:/bin/bash sbuild:x:115:124:Debian source builder,,,:/var/lib/sbuild:/bin/bash buildd:x:116:125:Debian build daemon,,,:/var/lib/buildd:/bin/bash ntop:x:118:128::/var/lib/ntop:/bin/false Debian-gdm:x:120:132:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm3:/bin/false colord:x:123:135:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/bin/false Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120701120417.gp9...@codelibre.net
