[Adduser-devel] Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

[Giovanni Rapagnani]

Hi,

> When a package uses adduser --system without explicitly specifying
> home directory of the new user, its home directory gets set to
> /home/$USER. Debian QA thinks that this is a policy violation and
> supports this by bending FHS.

actually, this isn't completely true. The home directory gets set to
/$DHOME/$USER where DHOME is a configuration variable found in
/etc/adduser.conf . I think that the site-specific nature of the base
directory for user home directories gets preserved through this DHOME
variable. It should be the responsibility of the system administrator to
keep this variable in sync with the base directory he wants for his home
directories. Isn't it?

Cheers,

-- 
Giovanni Rapagnani