On Thu, 10.07.14 08:17, Oron Peled (oron(a)actcom.co.il) wrote:
A non-API related question...
On Thursday 10 July 2014 01:49:41 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Please understand that we are not duplicating "adduser" here. Already in
> the name of the tool we wanted to make clear thtat this is abotu system
> users, nothing else. The file format we defined has been reduced to the
> minimum possible, in order to make it difficult for people to use it for
> anything else than this.
There are cases where a home directory of system users carry some semantics.
Two examples from the top of my head:
* Some tftpd implementations use it as the base path (and chroot into it)
* Some anonymous ftpd implementation have similar use (chroot into ~ftp)
So I assume *all* of these cases should be replaced by systemd explicit
settings -- e.g: WorkingDirectory, RootDirectory in the unit file.
Generally, I prefer the explicit systemd settings over home directory
with "magical" effects, but I wonder if anyone is aware of existing
system users which carry more complex semantics.
The "gdm" user also kinda needs a home directory. I figure we should add
a figth column to sysusers.d fragments, that allows setting the home
directory. It's on the TODO list now.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat