Hi, On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 09:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > the Debian Science team has packaged node-shiny-server[1]. > It creates a system user in its postinst script. I've added > some debug output to this script[2] since I wanted to debug > a piuparts issue which you can see here in salsa CI[3]. > > This log shows two ways to verify that the home directory > of the user does not exist, but adduser fails with > > Stopped: Couldn't create home directory `/home/shiny': File > exists. > > anyway. > > Any idea what's going on here and how to fix this?
It seems wrong for a system user to use a directory below /home. Ansgar
