Workaround for default home location for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04

[mitar]

Description of Issue/Question

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS have a bug which makes it impossible to configure where should default home directories be created (bug talks about default shell, but it is a problem for any default setting).

Salt's user.present state delegates to system location of where the user's home directory should be created, if it is not provided. The issue is that on very popular Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS systems you cannot really change this.

I would propose that salt has a workaround and checks where the default home directory is and use that when creating a home directory. It already reads some configuration from the system so it could also read DHOME from /etc/adduser.conf or HOME from /etc/default/useradd and use that to pass -b to useradd program calls.

[MTecknology]

Why are you messing with /etc/default/useradd? Check out the documentation for user.present and use that to define your expectations.

[gtmanfred]

If you wanted to submit a PR, we would love to have it.

Thanks for the request.
Daniel

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[mitar]

This is still relevant.

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[mitar]

Unstale.

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