[tor-bugs] #33733 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: How do home directories work?

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#33733: How do home directories work?
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     Reporter:  irl                                  |      Owner:  tpa
         Type:  task                                 |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                               |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                                       |  Parent ID:  #33715
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 There seems to be little consistency here, which isn't what I expect from
 an orchestrated process, so I'm maybe missing something.

 Each service has a directory in /srv/{service}.torproject.org/ and then
 sometimes there is a home directory, which is sometimes linked in some way
 to /home/{service}. When there are multiple users for a service, they can
 share the same /srv directory but then have inconsistent naming of home
 directories.

 Is there some documentation I can read to make sense of this?

 Context: I'm putting together our Ansible roles (#33715) that should
 replicate what TPA will give us when we move things to a TPA host after
 we're convinced it's ready for deployment and we know what the specs will
 be, but I'm having trouble generalising even from just the Onionoo and
 Exit Scanner setups.

 I'd like to be able to set some variables, like what usernames exist, what
 groups exist, and what paths will exist and should be used for stuff, and
 then let this role set that up. The service specific (e.g. Onionoo or Exit
 Scanner) roles will then run equally on our AWS dev instances and the
 production TPA instance.

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