Hi, Vincent Legoll <[email protected]> skribis:
> I've found some user account (other than nobody) > that have /var/empty as their home directory, f.e.: > > gnu/services/networking.scm:301 > > (define %ntp-accounts > (list (user-account > (name "ntpd") > (group "nogroup") > (system? #t) > (comment "NTP daemon user") > (home-directory "/var/empty") > (shell #~(string-append #$shadow "/sbin/nologin"))))) > > Is that a glitch, and they can be moved to /nonexistent or do > they really require an existing directory to work ? I don’t know. /var/empty is a widespread convention. But it probably doesn’t matter much in fact. :-) Ludo’.
