Feature #15209
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Option to specify custom user home directory paths
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Description
There are plenty of reasons not to have a home directory in /home/username
There should be the option of specifying an alternative home directory
I can fix that from the shell, but that means changes will not be saved as part of the configuration, and things will break with backup/restore, which is VERY BAD.
This is particularly of concern with users with the User - System: Copy files to home directory (chrooted scp) privileges, as they are likely set up to access specific locations to make/retrieve backups, or facilitate the ACME challenge.
Updated by Jim Pingle 3 months ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Subject changed from User management doesn't allow for setting the users home directory path to Option to specify custom user home directory paths
- Priority changed from Very High to Very Low
There may be reasons to move it on some systems but this is meant to be a firewall appliance, not a general-purpose multi-user system that lots of people log into.
We can maybe add an option to move the base directory or per-user paths, but it's not an immediate concern.
That said IIRC if you setup LDAP and the LDAP server feeds back a custom home directory it may be honored for SSH logins, see #8698 -- I don't have such a setup handy to double check that but it's worth exploring in the meantime.