On Fri, 2019-08-23 at 15:40 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 8/23/19 3:27 PM, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov wrote: > > +DESCRIPTION="User for the slurm - Highly Scalable Resource Manager" > > +ACCT_USER_ID=500 > > +ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/lib/slurm > > +ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS=0770 > > +ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( slurm ) > > If your package uses that directory, I would recommend you not rely on > it being created (with special permissions) as a side effect of > installing the acct-user package: > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fc55ac57cd92d9c1e156d13c882b08cf > > That used to be acceptable, since the "enewuser" command with the home > directory was part of the package that used that directory. But now that > the user data are in another package, we can't depend on them reliably. >
...and why is that, exactly? Are you assuming that someone will take over the dedicated user for another purpose and change its home directory? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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