Feature #1433
closed
Home directory creation fails
Added by Jan Wiele over 12 years ago.
Updated about 12 years ago.
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?
- 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
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.
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.
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Closing, not likely to happen anytime soon.
Adam
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