Am Donnerstag, 12. September 2019, 18:38:30 CEST schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 00:54:39 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
> > On 9/10/19 4:25 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > > I'm not entirely sure. It's what qmail always has done and what the
> > > eclass
> > > also did.
> > 
> > This is suggested by the qmail documentation,
> > 
> >   http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#create-users
> > 
> > ...but goes back to at least 1998, and likely earlier. I grepped the
> > source and don't see any obvious uses of $HOME. It was probably
> > suggested by DJB simply because it's a directory, and guaranteed to
> > exist on the various platforms that qmail supported at the time.
> 
> I have tested it without a home directory on 2 of my machines and it seems
> like it works fine. I have removed the home directory from the patches.

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