[gentoo-dev] Daemon users that need an actual home directory
I am trying to solve http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109079. I asked on #gentoo-dev and ciaramn said that we do not have a policy on where to make a home directory. So I would now like the input of other developers on howto solve this bug. Regards, Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Daemon users that need an actual home directory
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:58 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: I am trying to solve http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109079. I asked on #gentoo-dev and ciaramn said that we do not have a policy on where to make a home directory. So I would now like the input of other developers on howto solve this bug. Assuming that the tomcat user is in /etc/passwd (or available via getent) then you can use this if you inherit eutils. local homedir=$( egethome tomcat ) Now you have the homedir and if it's /dev/null you can either warn about it in the ebuild or abort. As to where to make homedirs - well, you can't go wrong with /var/lib - postgres, openldap and others have their homes there (where they store data). AFAIK ciaramn is right and we don't have a set policy. But then I don't think we can have a fixed policy as there would be many exceptions. Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Daemon users that need an actual home directory
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:58:51 +0300
Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to solve http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109079. I
asked on #gentoo-dev and ciaramn said that we do not have a policy on
where to make a home directory. So I would now like the input of other
developers on howto solve this bug.
I recently had a /dev/null homedir problem for media-sound/mpd{,-svn}
package[1]. Clearly, user mpd needs a non-null homedir. As for other daemon
users, I guess it should be handled on a per-user basis - some daemon users
most likely don't need the homedir, but need to have something specified
in /etc/passwd, thus /dev/null.
1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101662
Kind regards,
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Andrej Ticho Kacian ticho at gentoo dot org
Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86
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