On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Stuart Henderson<s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2009/06/07 12:56, patrick keshishian wrote: >> Just trying to see what other ports do with @newuser, it seems that >> some use /nonexistent and some /var/empty for the user's home >> directory. What is the preferred home directory to use for a daemon? > > imho: usually /nonexistent unless the port has a daemon which > chroot()s to its home directory and doesn't write to it (since > we don't want random crap in /var/empty).
Thanks Stuart for the reply. One more questions if you don't mind. Just want to make sure I'm doing this port thing correctly. Is there any specific convention for user/group names for ports? The port I'm making if for a pptp client, should the user/group I choose reflect the name of the port/package or is _pptp sufficient? I looked for examples, and I see obvious ones such as _cups for print/cups and _mysql for database/mysql, but then i also see _news for news/leafnode and _ups for sysutils/nut. Thanks, --patrick >> Also, when submitting the port, should a diff of user.list be >> included? Otherwise, how does one request a user-id for the new port? > > a diff for user.list probably isn't necessary but won't hurt. > adding a big reminder to the message text is very welcome :)
