Re: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?
Marc Haber writes ("Re: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?"):
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:36:58 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen
> <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> >[Ian Jackson]
> >> So while it doesn't use run-parts, it's halfway there already. I
> >> use adduser.local on chiark.
> >
> >Definitely useful, but not enought, as the debian-edu-config package
> >would break policy if it included a file in /usr/local/, and only one
> >package can provide this script at the time while I expect to include
> >several scripts to adjust parts of the created home directory, so we
> >could not provide a package for the universtity setup while also
> >having debian-edu-config intstalled. For this, I believe a .d
> >directory with scripts executed by run-parts is needed.
Yes.
> I guess that the adduser maintainers might apply a patch to adduser
> introducing a second hook which is not in /usr/local, and then one of
> your packages could ship such a hook which run-parts your own .d
> directory.
Or just a direct patch to adduser which makes to run-parts if
run-parts and the directory both exist.
One problem is that run-parts does not currently support passing
arguments to its scripts:
chiark:~> run-parts /dev/enoent/1 some arguments
run-parts: missing operand
Try `run-parts --help' for more information.
chiark:~> run-parts /dev/enoent/1
run-parts: failed to open directory /dev/enoent/1: No such file or directory
chiark:~> run-parts
run-parts: missing operand
Try `run-parts --help' for more information.
chiark:~>
but that feature could be added easily enough.
Ian.
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