On Thu, 10.07.14 08:17, Oron Peled (oron@xxxxxxxxxxxx) 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 -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
