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On Fri, 2019-08-23 at 15:40 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 8/23/19 3:27 PM, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov wrote: |
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> > +DESCRIPTION="User for the slurm - Highly Scalable Resource Manager" |
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> > +ACCT_USER_ID=500 |
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> > +ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/lib/slurm |
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> > +ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS=0770 |
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> > +ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( slurm ) |
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> If your package uses that directory, I would recommend you not rely on |
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> it being created (with special permissions) as a side effect of |
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> installing the acct-user package: |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fc55ac57cd92d9c1e156d13c882b08cf |
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> That used to be acceptable, since the "enewuser" command with the home |
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> directory was part of the package that used that directory. But now that |
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> the user data are in another package, we can't depend on them reliably. |
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...and why is that, exactly? Are you assuming that someone will take |
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over the dedicated user for another purpose and change its home |
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directory? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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