On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 06:07:06PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> As I've said, a human uses the "amavis" account.
I think this statement here needs a bit of expansion, and thus it more
clarity happens.
Your aforementioned human generally doesn't use the 'amavis' account in
the same way that the
On 1/21/20 6:44 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote:
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> There is technically no real issue, but it's the right thing to do.
>
> Right, motivations for your proposal for allowing this:
>
> * You want it.
>
> Motivations against:
>
This is dishonest. "I want it" because it improves some things for our
users,
Hi Michael,
My background: 21 years of Linux, 18 of which was primarily on Gentoo.
17 years of no other OS other than Linux. Ex-sysadmin for a largish
setup with 4000+ active users, and ~500-600 available workstations and a
number of storage and other servers. Not to brag, just to give you an
On 1/20/20 5:08 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
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> So I can describe in detail one example, but its not running Gentoo; so
> I'm not sure if you care in practice.
Yes, I'm happy to see a real example.
> At work we had sec=krb5 NFS v3 mounted home directories. They were
> mounted in /home (via the autom
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 6:20 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> >
> >> install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.
> >
> > Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can
On 1/20/20 1:39 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
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> I'm going to be blunt. We arbitrarily made a decision that /home
> belongs to sysadmin. Please respect that. If you really believe your
> package is *this* special to justify changing this arbitrary decision,
> the burden of proof lies on you.
>
Ok.
On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 10:20 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 1/20/20 9:50 AM, David Seifert wrote:
> > Rich has given reasons, ulm has, and mgorny suggested a solution.
> >
>
> Everyone's real intent on saying that there are problems without
> actually typing what those problems are into the e
On 1/20/20 1:01 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
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> 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).
>
Finally an honest argument =)
I agree. But all we're doing is choosing the default here. GLEP81 lets
the user overr
> 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
On 1/20/20 9:50 AM, David Seifert wrote:
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> Rich has given reasons, ulm has, and mgorny suggested a solution.
>
Everyone's real intent on saying that there are problems without
actually typing what those problems are into the email box.
We're talking about a single keepdir file here.
Please d
On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 09:20 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > > install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under
> > > /home.
> >
> > Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specifi
On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
>> install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.
>
> Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup in
> multiple ways that are incompatible with the package m
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.
Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup in
multiple ways that are incompatible with the package manager installing
things there (the only exception b
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