--- deluge_web.in.orig  2019-01-12 11:37:06.618717000 -0500
+++ deluge_web.in       2019-01-12 11:52:29.750201000 -0500
@@ -38,12 +38,17 @@

 start_precmd=${name}_prestart
 stop_postcmd=${name}_poststop
+

 deluge_web_prestart()
 {
        if [ "$deluge_web_user" = 'asjklasdfjklasdf' ]; then
                err 1 "You must set deluge_web_user to a real, unprivileged user"
        fi
+       deluge_web_home=$(pw user show ${deluge_web_user} | cut -d : -f 9)
+       if [ -z ${deluge_web_home} ]; then
+               err 1 "deluge_web_user does not have a valid home directory."
+       fi

        if [ ! -d "/var/run/${name}" ]; then
                if [ -e "/var/run/${name}" ]; then
@@ -52,14 +57,14 @@
                mkdir -p /var/run/${name}
        fi

-       if [ ! -d "/home/${deluge_web_user}/.python-eggs" ]; then
-               mkdir -p /home/${deluge_web_user}/.python-eggs
+       if [ ! -d "${deluge_web_home}/.python-eggs" ]; then
+               mkdir ${deluge_web_home}/.python-eggs
+               chown -R $deluge_web_user ${deluge_web_home}/.python-eggs
        fi

        chmod 0755 /var/run/${name}
        chown -R $deluge_web_user /var/run/${name}
-       chown -R $deluge_web_user /home/${deluge_web_user}/.python-eggs
-       export PYTHON_EGG_CACHE="/home/${deluge_web_user}/.python-eggs"
+       export PYTHON_EGG_CACHE="${deluge_web_home}/.python-eggs"
 }

 deluge_web_poststop()
@@ -72,7 +77,7 @@

 : ${deluge_web_enable:="NO"}
 : ${deluge_web_user:="asjklasdfjklasdf"}
-: ${deluge_web_confdir:="/home/${deluge_web_user}/.config/deluge"}
+: ${deluge_web_confdir:="${deluge_web_home}/.config/deluge"}
 : ${deluge_web_loglevel:="error"}
 : ${deluge_web_logfile:="/var/tmp/${name}.log"}