On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 10:23:17 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: > >> OK. Something like this? > >> > >> Packages must not contain files in /home, and packages' maintainer > >> scripts must not write to users' home directories. The programs in > >> those packages may create directory hierarchies as described in > >> §3.8.3 "Home Directory Specifications and Conventions" when run by > >> a user. > >> > >> I'm not so sure whether this belongs in the FHS section? > > > > Indeed. I thought that the requirement that packages don't contain > > files in /home was in Policy already, but it seems that it is not. > > > > > So filing as a separate bug. > > > >> I think it's a point about how our packages are required to behave, > >> rather than about the directories that can exist and their > >> purposes. The directory hierarchies are still the same, regardless of > >> how they're created. > > > > The wording of FHS is not about directories that can exist -- it says > > that distributions "can create" or "may create" the dirs. That's what > > we want to forbid. > > By the way there are packages (gitolite3 is the one I know) that create > user home directories in /var for some package dedicated user. I'm not > sure how to distinguish cleanly between that case and the human users > case. I guess having a home directory in /home is a reasonable proxy for > being human.
I think the distinction you are looking for is system users, as the ones requested in the gitolite3 case with «adduser --system …». Thanks, Guillem
