>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> Quoting FHS-3.0 again: >> >> | On large systems (especially when the /home directories are shared >> | amongst many hosts using NFS) it is useful to subdivide user home >> | directories. Subdivision may be accomplished by using subdirectories >> | such as /home/staff, /home/guests, /home/students, etc. >> >> So, how are you going to detect if such a scheme is used on the system, >> and in which subdirectory the amavis user should be placed?
> The same way we detect that scheme before setting a home directory to > /var/lib/whatever, which you may notice, is not under /home/guests or > anything like that. Does this cause a real technical problem, or is it > just more FUD? It's just awful to have a one user at second level (like /home/amavis) when all others are at third level (like /home/staff/joe). Besides, nothing guarantees that your username under /home won't collide with an existing subdirectory name. Ulrich
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