(debian-policy.info)Non-existent home directories

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9.2.3 Non-existent home directories
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The canonical non-existent home directory is ‘/nonexistent’.  Users who
should not have a home directory should have their home directory set to
this value.

The Debian autobuilders set HOME to ‘/nonexistent’ so that packages
which try to write to a home directory will fail to build.