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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>,
	24275-done@debbugs.gnu.org,
	John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Subject: bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:44:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=r9JUbPWFW83tbTdQZTgwfC3vhEFgXSJyw1XN4qn5nXqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y43h2edy.fsf@gnu.org>

BTW,

I think this may be related to this subject, so...

I've found some user account (other than nobody)
that have /var/empty as their home directory, f.e.:

gnu/services/networking.scm:301

(define %ntp-accounts
  (list (user-account
         (name "ntpd")
         (group "nogroup")
         (system? #t)
         (comment "NTP daemon user")
         (home-directory "/var/empty")
         (shell #~(string-append #$shadow "/sbin/nologin")))))

Is that a glitch, and they can be moved to /nonexistent or do
they really require an existing directory to work ?

-- 
Vincent Legoll

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-28 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-20 20:11 bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD John Darrington
2016-08-21 23:14 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-22  8:21   ` Alex Kost
2016-08-22  8:47     ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-22 18:09       ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 11:04         ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-27 23:32           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-27 23:49             ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-28 13:48               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-28 14:44                 ` Vincent Legoll [this message]
2016-08-29  8:04                   ` Ludovic Courtès

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