HOME not set when only "user" is specified

[axinojolais]

Using pebble on a charm deployed on a 2.9.32 juju controller

My app was misbehaving because HOME wasn't set to /home/foo even though I specified user: "foo" in the pebble plan. I found #129 which sets HOME if both user and group are set, but I would expect HOME to be set as soon as just user is set.

I don't have a reason to not set group, I just don't really care about the group (and I would also assume that just setting the user would also set the group to the user's GID for me).

Anyway, I can work around the issue by setting HOME explicitly (my juju version is too old to have #129), but it would be nice if pebble could do that for me.

Thanks !

[benhoyt]

Thanks for this. We can dig in deeper, but at first glance it makes sense to set HOME when only user is specified.

For the record, yes, Juju 2.9.32 is on Pebble commit 32ead04, which doesn't include the change you referenced (or things like #114). The latest 2.9.x version (.39 I think) does. But as you point out, you'd still have to set user and group.