On Thu, Jul 10, 2014, at 05:42 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > 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) But these aren't really usable without configuration, no? Now many server packages do have default configuration pointing to a default data store (e.g. apache and /var/www/html), but I think there's a reasonable expectation that the majority of sites customize this. Hmm, actually though since sysusers defaults to /, that would presumably mean the default ftp server install would serve up the entire OS, which is probably not desired. Lennart, what about changing the default to /var/empty or so? Interesting, httpd appears to default to /usr/share/httpd for its home directory, not /var/www/ as I would have expected. > The "gdm" user also kinda needs a home directory. This one is special enough that I think alternatively we could have GDM use a compiled-in default of $localstatedir/lib/gdm if the home directory is the default. (Leading to the question of what the default should be). I'm just thinking out loud - maybe it's easiest to add the home directory field. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
