Hi Andreas e.a., On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > 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.
Yup, see also https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-lacks-home-in-adduser In https://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts there are some ideas; I believe there is not yet final consensus in Debian on how to deal with adduser in maintainer scripts... Anyway HTH, Bye, Joost
