maintainer-script-lacks-home-in-adduser
The maintainer script apparently runs 'adduser --system' but hardcodes a path under '/home' for the '--home' option or does not use the '--home' option.
The FHS says: /home is a fairly standard concept, but it is clearly a site-specific filesystem. The setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program should rely on this location.
Note that passing --no-create-home alone does not solve the issue
because home field of passwd file point to a non existing
/home subdirectory. Please use
adduser --no-create-home --home /nonexistent
instead.
For more information please consult:
- /home : User home directories (optional) (Section 3.8) in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- the adduser(8) manual page
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163
.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit d219a5a. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check scripts.
Visibility: error
- maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home