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Subject: `setup-user` Does Not Create a Home Directory After Install
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When using `setup-user` interactively or via flags, then install the 
system onto a disk using `setup-disk`, the user's home directory is not 
created when booting into the disk.

If you try to login as the user, you will be given the error message 
`login: can't change directory to '/home/alice': No such file or 
directory`. When using `ls /home`, nothing will be there. I've had 
issues when using `adduser` instead too, even with `-h`. It does seem to 
create a home directory when you use `setup-alpine` however.

Is this some kind of bug? Is there something in the docs I overlooked?