On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:04:47PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 01 May 2021 at 05:50:04 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > It seems that previously, the homedir for messagebus used to be > > /var/run/dbus > > while nowadays it is /nonexistent for new installations. > > Yes. > > > Could some logic be added to an upcoming version, that all existing > > installations > > are aligned with that? > > Unfortunately, no, I don't think that's going to be possible. > We did a similar transition in src:policykit-1, but we found that usermod > will refuse to change the home directory of a user that is currently > running any processes. For policykit-1, polkitd is essentially stateless, > so we can just shut it down any time and let D-Bus activation restart it > (with the new home directory) next time it's needed. > > But if dbus is installed, then it's very very likely that the system > bus is running (as the messagebus user), and stopping/restarting the > system bus on a running system isn't supported/supportable, so the > practical result is that the home directory cannot be changed by the > maintainer scripts.
I'm CCing the adduser maintainer(s), as this seems to be an interesting use/edge-case. > [..] Chris
