Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] acct-user/suricata: new user for UID 477

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 12/11/19 8:45 AM, Marek Szuba wrote:

> +ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/lib/suricata
> +ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS=0750

Please don't set these unless it's absolutely necessary. The rationale
for this has finally been committed to the devmanual, but has yet to be
pushed to the website. In the meantime it's here:

> http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/gentoo_glep81_user_package_guidelines.xhtml

In all likelihood it's the package that needs /var/lib/suricata and not
the user, so you should create it in the package ebuild.