On 2019-12-11 13:54, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> +ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/lib/suricata >> +ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS=0750 > > Please don't set these unless it's absolutely necessary. The rationale > for this has finally been committed to the devmanual, but has yet to be > pushed to the website. In the meantime it's here: > >> http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/gentoo_glep81_user_package_guidelines.xhtml
Thank you for this detailed explanation! As far as I can tell there is indeed no need for this user to have a home directory other than that's the way it was done in old Suricata ebuilds - so I'll just drop these two lines (and also use $PN as the name of the primary group) from the final commit. -- MS
