Re: daemon user naming scheme

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"):
> It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
> /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
> _foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever.

You need to be careful that the directory chosen never has undesirable
permissions, since there are many ways that access can be granted to a
user foo by putting things in ~foo.

For example, /var/games/foo seems like a bad idea since it will
probably be g+w games.

Ian.