From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 865BF138350 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35B11E0940; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFACEE0937 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F6CB34E301 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20200120034350.27108-1-mjo@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:20:51 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d959e01e-57ba-46b9-bdc5-b2c7a272b68d X-Archives-Hash: a0e28e1133611dbc4f6f524af3adaa0b On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home. > > Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup in > multiple ways that are incompatible with the package manager installing > things there (the only exception being baselayout creating the directory > itself). I haven't been given a single technical reason why using /home would cause a problem. What specific incompatibilities are you talking about? > Quoting FHS-3.0 again: > > | On large systems (especially when the /home directories are shared > | amongst many hosts using NFS) it is useful to subdivide user home > | directories. Subdivision may be accomplished by using subdirectories > | such as /home/staff, /home/guests, /home/students, etc. > > So, how are you going to detect if such a scheme is used on the system, > and in which subdirectory the amavis user should be placed? The same way we detect that scheme before setting a home directory to /var/lib/whatever, which you may notice, is not under /home/guests or anything like that. Does this cause a real technical problem, or is it just more FUD? > I also wonder why you would send this patch, when there wasn't a single > voice supporting your proposition in the other thread and several > opposing ones. I don't want to just complain without offering a solution. No one has pointed out any problems with it. This stuff is already in /home, and I'd like to get off user.eclass without introducing a new QA warning for a keepdir file.