Bug#793613: lintian: error in adduser --home check
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 16:49:58 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.33
>
> Hi,
>
> lintian shows the following error:
> E: ntp: maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home postinst:23
>
> However, it's called like this:
> ntp.postinst: adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntp --no-create-home ntp
>
Looks to me like lintian is right, and you should set ntp's $HOME to
something like /nonexistent instead of /home/ntp.
Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/
Informatique scientifique & gestion de connaissances
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