On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 02:56:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:44:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package > > > account created with its home directory in /home/package, as it is > > > adduser --system's default btw. I am therefore faced with having to > > > change /home to some non-/home place. Unfortunately, policy does not > > > give any hint about how to do it right. > > > > > > Where do I put my user's home directory? In this case, the user's home > > > directory contains a .ssh with known_hosts, authorized_keys and actual > > > keys and it might additionally accumulate some regular dotfiles. > > > > I'd go with /var/lib, which is what most packages do. I don't count > > the user-specific stuff to be package configuration, in general. > > .ssh is used to log in to another system running my package, it holds > manually created authorized_keys and keys. I'd call that configuration.
Yes, but it's user configuration not system configuration. If you do want to have that as configuration in /etc, I'd suggest symlinking it from /var/lib/foo to /etc/foo/authorized_keys (or vice versa), like e.g. postgresql handles cluster configuration. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
