Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 19:22 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Let it die =) I'm not going to apply the patch; it's there if someone
> else decides that it's the least-bad solution to this problem.
> 
> 
> On 1/20/20 6:57 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > Why *isn't* some /var/lib/... possible here?
> 
> It is, the question is how many backflips we should be doing to avoid
> putting what is practically and factually a home directory in /home. I
> have a few of these packages. I will echo ulm's sentiment that it's just
> awful to put them all in
> 
>   /var/lib/user1-home
>   /var/lib/user2-home
>   ...
> 
> rather than /home/user1 and /home/user2.
> 
> That's also second-guessing the administrator, whose home directory
> policies for e.g. backups very likely apply to the home directories I'm
> creating. (Keep in mind that I'm only talking about exceptions for very
> special packages that install a system user that will also be used by a
> human or that stores per-user configuration. And the exception is only
> for the keepdir file.)
> 
> Home directories in /home were also allowed with user.eclass, which
> means that we now hit a roadblock updating those accounts to GLEP81.
> 

Please don't conflate 'allowed' with 'nobody noticed it'.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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