Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:44:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package
> > account created with its home directory in /home/package, as it is
> > adduser --system's default btw. I am therefore faced with having to
> > change /home to some non-/home place. Unfortunately, policy does not
> > give any hint about how to do it right.
> >
> > Where do I put my user's home directory? In this case, the user's home
> > directory contains a .ssh with known_hosts, authorized_keys and actual
> > keys and it might additionally accumulate some regular dotfiles.
>
> I'd go with /var/lib, which is what most packages do. I don't count
> the user-specific stuff to be package configuration, in general.
.ssh is used to log in to another system running my package, it holds
manually created authorized_keys and keys. I'd call that configuration.
Greetings
Marc
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