On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 23:14 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > We could set it to /var/lib/ntp instead Sounds good to me.
> but changing it on upgrade > sounds a bit hairy. Well if it's really a hassle,.. let it be,... But IMHO it shouldn't be too much of a problem: usermod -d /var/lib/ntp in the configure step. The code can be dropped in wheezy+1 one,... cause only direct upgrades are officially supported. Not to costly, and every user get's the "current" state :) > I think it's also kind of a bug in adduser that it creates system users > with a home directory under /home. Guess you're right,... the question is what other safe value could it use? Then only reasonable I can think of is something like /nonexistent/ as a fallback when nothing is provided. Falling back to the current /home/<system-user> is ugly, but at least it should be "safe". Cheers, Chris.
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