maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 244756] x11/sddm: /etc/ isn't a place for home directories

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Bug 244756: x11/sddm: /etc/ isn't a place for home directories
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244756



--- Description ---
The UIDs entry for sddm places its home directory in /usr/local/etc/sddm/home:

sddm:*:219:219::0:0:SDDM Display Manager
user:/usr/local/etc/sddm/home:/usr/sbin/nologin

This seems like a bad idea, since /usr/local/etc/ normally holds configuration
files, and is often managed via systems designed for that purpose; having it
contain a home directory is liable to cause unintended results.

It seems to me that the home directory should probably be somewhere under /var/