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Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ?

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ?
Date 2021-09-03 14:50 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:39:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> So, the existence of /home/ntp on the OP's system, or any system
> installed from a Debian release prior to the last 4-ish years, could be
> attributed to some process or series of actions that decides, "hey, this
> ntp user's home directory is missing, I should create it".  Whether
> those actions be manual or the result of some script or service, that
> seems the most likely way for that directory to appear on a system.

We haven't heard back from the OP yet.  We don't know what packages
and/or directories they're talking about.

In my case, there *isn't* an actual /home/ntp directory.  It's just
specified in /etc/passwd as the user's home directory.

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how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2021-09-03 11:40 +0200
  Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-09-03 11:50 +0200
    Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-09-03 14:10 +0200
    Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2021-09-03 15:40 +0200
  Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-09-03 14:00 +0200
    Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-03 14:10 +0200
      Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-03 14:20 +0200
      Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-09-03 14:30 +0200
        Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-03 14:40 +0200
          Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-09-03 14:40 +0200
            Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-03 14:50 +0200
        Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2021-09-03 15:20 +0200
        Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-06 12:30 +0200
    Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2021-09-03 16:00 +0200
      Re: how to forbid debhelper to modify /home ? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-09-03 16:20 +0200

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