Re: [gentoo-dev] Daemon users that need an actual home directory

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:58 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
> I am trying to solve http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109079. I
> asked on #gentoo-dev and ciaramn said that we do not have a policy on
> where to make a home directory. So I would now like the input of other
> developers on howto solve this bug.

Assuming that the tomcat user is in /etc/passwd (or available via
getent) then you can use this if you inherit eutils.

local homedir=$( egethome tomcat )

Now you have the homedir and if it's /dev/null you can either warn about
it in the ebuild or abort.

As to where to make homedirs - well, you can't go wrong with /var/lib -
postgres, openldap and others have their "homes" there (where they store
data).

AFAIK ciaramn is right and we don't have a set policy. But then I don't
think we can have a fixed policy as there would be many exceptions.

Roy


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