Set new user permissions in Yocto recipe - yocto

Question

I have a recipe to add a user called foo:
inherit useradd
USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-P foo -u 1000 -d /home/foo -r -s /bin/bash foo;"
LICENSE = "CLOSED"
do_install () {
install -d ${D}/data/docker
install -d ${D}/home/foo
chown -R foo ${D}/home/foo
chown -R foo ${D}/data/docker
}
FILES_${PN} = " \
/home/foo \
/data \
"
For an obscure reason, data/docker is owned by foo but not /home/foo. Any idea why?

Answer 1

Actually, you don't need to install /home/foo(nor chown) since that task should be already accomplished by useradd, thus you can remove those commands. However, you might want to modify your recipe as follows:
do_install () {
install -d -m 755 ${D}${datadir}/foo
install -d -m 755 ${D}/data/docker
chown -R foo ${D}${datadir}/foo
chown -R foo ${D}/data/docker
}
FILES_${PN} = "${datadir}/foo/* /data/docker/*"

Answer 2

So the reason was that another recipe was creating a subfolder in the home directory first and was owned by root by default.
When the recipe to add the user was baked, the home folder was already created with root permissions.
My solution was to add the creation of this folder in the recipe adding the user instead.
Thanks #danior for the corrections