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Am Montag, 20. Januar 2020, 04:43:50 CET schrieb Michael Orlitzky: |
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> In rare cases, a system user will need a real home directory to store |
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> per-user configuration data and/or be accessed interactively by a |
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> human being. In those cases, /home/${username} is an appropriate place |
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> for the user's home directory. Using /home is allowed and encouraged |
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> by the FHS, and there are no real technical obstacles to it aside from |
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> an install-time QA warning about the path. |
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Why *isn't* some /var/lib/... possible here? |
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I mean, user configuration works perfectly fine there, even if you have to |
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log in. And the purpose of the account is closer to, say, root (with its |
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nonstandard home directory location) than a normal user. |
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I've seen all possible site-specific changes to /home layout, including, |
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e.g., |
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* /home/server1/username |
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* /home/large/username |
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* /home/u/username |
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... |
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which would all get somehow messy if a system account with a fixed path is |
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forced in there. |
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-- |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |