Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:08:40AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> If those files are intended to be persistant, then either /etc/package
>> or /var/lib/package are pretty much your only options. The semantics
>> of the other locations you mention don't allow for those sorts of
>> files.
> /var/lib/package cannot be used as ssh keys can be considered
> configuration data which is explicitly forbidden for /var/lib.
I'm not sure that I understand the use case. I've never needed to create
an authorized_keys file for a system account created by a package. Maybe
you could explain more about what you're doing that makes this a
reasonable thing to do? Everyone uses systems differently, and I'm sure
there's a reason, but you seem to think that the use case is obvious and
it's not at all obvious to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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