diff --git a/polkit.changes b/polkit.changes
index 5bb3107..9dd81e7 100644
--- a/polkit.changes
+++ b/polkit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 25 09:05:02 UTC 2012 - vuntz@opensuse.org
+
+- Use %{_localstatedir}/lib/polkit for $HOME of polkit user,
+  instead of %{_libexecdir}/polkit-1. The directory is manually
+  created in %install.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 14 18:20:06 UTC 2012 - vuntz@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/polkit.spec b/polkit.spec
index 58ae51b..ca8bd4b 100644
--- a/polkit.spec
+++ b/polkit.spec
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %install
 %make_install
 rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la
+# create $HOME for polkit user
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/lib/polkit
 %find_lang polkit-1
 
 %clean
@@ -145,7 +147,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %pre
 getent group polkitd > /dev/null || groupadd -r polkitd
-getent passwd polkitd > /dev/null || useradd -r -g polkitd -d %{_libexecdir}/polkit-1 -s /sbin/nologin -c "User for polkitd" polkitd
+getent passwd polkitd > /dev/null || useradd -r -g polkitd -d %{_localstatedir}/lib/polkit -s /sbin/nologin -c "User for polkitd" polkitd
 exit 0
 
 %post
@@ -200,6 +202,8 @@ exit 0
 %dir %{_libexecdir}/polkit-1
 %{_libexecdir}/polkit-1/polkitd
 %verify(not mode) %attr(4755,root,root) %{_prefix}/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
+# $HOME for polkit user
+%dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/polkit
 
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)