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bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:04:36 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:
> 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 ?
I don’t know. /var/empty is a widespread convention. But it probably
doesn’t matter much in fact. :-)
Ludo’.
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- bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD,
Ludovic Courtès <=