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Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ?



On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:39:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> So, the existence of /home/ntp on the OP's system, or any system
> installed from a Debian release prior to the last 4-ish years, could be
> attributed to some process or series of actions that decides, "hey, this
> ntp user's home directory is missing, I should create it".  Whether
> those actions be manual or the result of some script or service, that
> seems the most likely way for that directory to appear on a system.

We haven't heard back from the OP yet.  We don't know what packages
and/or directories they're talking about.

In my case, there *isn't* an actual /home/ntp directory.  It's just
specified in /etc/passwd as the user's home directory.


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