On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 16:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2008 16:20, Craig White wrote: > > /usr/share is a really bad idea... > > - selinux > > - goes against intended purpose > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE26 > > - just a plain bad idea. > > > > home directories should be in /home with the sole exception of daemon > > users (uid < 500) which will typically be created in /var or /var/lib > > > Fair enough. I'll delete that user and start again. About UIDs, though. The > user 'groupware' is not a user in the normal sense of the word. It is a part > of dimap functionality, in my case handled by dovecot. There will never be a > login, unless I have to do it as part of the setup, then switch off logins. > Is it best to allocate a UID above or below 500? > > This may be obvious to you, but its a new ballgame to me :-) ---- FWIW... On most networks I create a user 'administrator', a normal (500+ uid) account with login privileges and an $HOME directory somewhere in /home (I normally put user accounts in /home/users). I use this user 'administrator' for a lot of purposes including... - Windows Domain Administrator - 'the From' email address (adminstrator at my_domain.tld) for notifications - 'admin' user for Horde (IMP/et. al.) - owner of Windows related files that are somewhat restricted such as 'netlogon' share - owner of most shares (NFS/Samba/Netatalk) - member of 'Dom Users' group (again a Windows thing) This may or may not be useful to you. I think that the users you create should be uid > 500 UNLESS their only purpose is to run daemons. Craig