Change the default HOME directory in /etc/default/useradd according FHS

(/home instead of /home/users).  This fixes Alioth's bug #310559.
Thanks to Dale E. Edmons.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 227b393ba35780876a5343a8071eed425589275e..9424dc8039821326420ae25956e0418e71f33487 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-02-14  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+
+       * NEWS, etc/useradd: Change the default HOME directory in
+       /etc/default/useradd according FHS (/home instead of /home/users).
+       This fixes Alioth's bug #310559. Thanks to Dale E. Edmons.
+
 2008-02-14  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
 
        * NEWS, src/newgrp.c: Use the correct AUDIT_CHGRP_ID event instead of

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 33eba3f007b0a731f1a80c3d2082f392c81780f4..ff3056aa7fc1c67de1a77e7b9bbd8e71808e1eaa 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ shadow-4.1.0 -> shadow-4.1.1                                          UNRELEASED
 - general
   * Do not translate the messages sent to syslog. This avoids logging
     PAM error messages in the users's locale.
+- etc/useradd
+  * /etc/default/useradd now defines HOME as /home to match FHS.
 - chage
   * Fix bug which forbid to set the aging information of an account with a
     passwd entry, but no shadow entry.

diff --git a/etc/useradd b/etc/useradd
index 7d6f65e62fc1d58720cf5fe8569fb2c38557efb8..b77dd856041a69446c730c7bd1a81a010115f9cf 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/useradd
+++ b/etc/useradd
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # useradd defaults file
 GROUP=1000
-HOME=/home/users
+HOME=/home
 INACTIVE=-1
 EXPIRE=
 SHELL=/bin/bash