On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:57:38PM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:05:24AM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > Where would you suggest? I can't think of a better place, in the
> > > absence of direction, than /home.
> >
> > Cr
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:34:47PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Stephen Gran (sg...@debian.org) [120702 13:25]:
> > Policy says packages can't rely on the layout of /home/
> > Some packages invoke adduser --system without the switch --home
> > In this case, adduser creates a user with $HOME unde
* Stephen Gran (sg...@debian.org) [121212 08:19]:
> This one time, at band camp, Andreas Barth said:
> > > Now, I don't agree that this is a bug in adduser - I think this is a bug
> > > in packages invoking adduser. I think the right way to do this is a
> > > mass bug filing on those packages.
> >
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:05:24AM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > Where would you suggest? I can't think of a better place, in the
> > absence of direction, than /home.
>
> Creating /home/foo will break in the case of an nfs mounted /home, and
> oth
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:05:24AM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Where would you suggest? I can't think of a better place, in the
> absence of direction, than /home.
Creating /home/foo will break in the case of an nfs mounted /home, and
other packages are going out of wheezy for using adduser's --
Hi,
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Barth said:
> > Now, I don't agree that this is a bug in adduser - I think this is a bug
> > in packages invoking adduser. I think the right way to do this is a
> > mass bug filing on those packages.
>
> I think I disagree here.
>
> If we have a switch o
* Stephen Gran (sg...@debian.org) [120702 13:25]:
> Policy says packages can't rely on the layout of /home/
> Some packages invoke adduser --system without the switch --home
> In this case, adduser creates a user with $HOME under /home/
Question now is how bad is "directory created unter /home" re
Your argumentation, the personal attacks set aside, is sound. Please
downgrade at will.
If I were still active in adduser development, I'd probably,
post-wheezy, let adduser emit a warning when adduser --system is
invoked either without --home, or a --home /home option.
Greetings
Marc
On Mon, Ju
Hi,
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> > > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the
> > > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no
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