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 1603B138350 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EDADE0964; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:15:09 +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 A32B5E08F5 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:15:08 +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 57E0A34E2E5 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home References: <20200120034350.27108-1-mjo@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:15:05 -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: 7533008c-a056-4f27-a739-75d016dad41d X-Archives-Hash: 2ed483b809ae1aa0d80db40e49707ae4 On 1/20/20 1:01 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > It's just awful to have a one user at second level (like /home/amavis) > when all others are at third level (like /home/staff/joe). > Finally an honest argument =) I agree. But all we're doing is choosing the default here. GLEP81 lets the user override the home directory in those rare cases to put it under /home/guests. For everyone else, you get /home/user1 /home/user2 /home/user3 /home/user4 instead of /home/user1 /home/user2 /var/lib/user3/home /home/user4 I think it's weird that my bash_history winds up under /var/lib. > Besides, nothing guarantees that your username under /home won't collide > with an existing subdirectory name. You can make the same argument about /var/lib. And keep in mind that we already have "collisions" for $HOME every time someone switches from user.eclass to a GLEP81 user. The risk for /home is no greater than anywhere else, and we've deemed that risk acceptable, whatever it is.