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Feature #1433

Home directory creation fails

Added by Jan Wiele almost 12 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
General
Target version:
-
Start date:
2012-11-28
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

Hi, i am using the ubuntu ppa.
My /home directory is a nfs4 share, which does not allow root access. Therefor the creation of /home/hts by the post installation script fails. Perhaps a home directory at /var/lib/ makes more sense?

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#1

Updated by Adam Sutton almost 12 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

This is not a bug, if you're configuration does not allow for the generation of new home directories that's a system issue.

That being said I don't completely disagree with the concept of moving the configuration to a system (rather than home) directory. I even considered making the change, but for every user that thinks its a good idea you're bound to find another that would rather keep things as is.

But I will move this to features so it gets considered.

Adam

#2

Updated by Jan Wiele almost 12 years ago

Thanks Adam. I always thought that /home is for real existing users. I have never seen a service program before which creates its home directory at /home.

#3

Updated by Adam Sutton almost 12 years ago

Personally I actually use the approach a lot, since /home is always (for me) on a large disk (usually backed RAID disks). Where as most of my system drives are usually just for temporary data and applications etc...

So even for things that don't typically use /home I usually end up moving most data there. However I'm probably a bit odd in that respect ;) And that doesn't have any bearing on TVH since it was Andreas that chose to use /home long before I got involved.

Personally I do agree that it might be better to make the default directory outside of /home in a system level directory, users can easily change this path in the service config file.

I will give it some thought and discuss with Andreas.

#4

Updated by Adam Sutton over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

Closing, not likely to happen anytime soon.

Adam

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