add home_dir_template to allow arbitrary locations

nextflowspawner/__init__.py

@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ class NextflowSpawner(LocalProcessSpawner):
     workflow_url = Unicode(config=True, help="The url of the pipeline repository.")
     workflow_revision = Unicode('main', config=True, help="The revision of the pipeline repository.")
 
+    home_dir_template = Unicode('/home/{username}', config=True, help="Template to expand to set the user home. {username} is expanded to the jupyterhub username.")
+
     home_dir = Unicode(help="The user home directory")
 
     @default('home_dir')
     def _default_home_dir(self):
-        return pwd.getpwnam(self.user.name).pw_dir
+        return self.home_dir_template.format(username=self.user.name)
 
     nxf_home = Unicode(help="The directory where nextflow assets are stored.")
 

setup.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
   name="nextflowspawner",
-  version='0.7.2',
+  version='0.7.3',
   url="https://github.com/phue/nextflowspawner",
   description="Spawn Nextflow pipelines from Jupyterhub and configure them interactively",  
   author="Patrick Hüther",