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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:58:18 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        flux <flux@hotbox.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/home directory
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.58.0312230954050.14217@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1561878551.20031224123741@hotbox.ru>
References:  <1561878551.20031224123741@hotbox.ru>

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, flux wrote:

> Maybe kinda strange question, but...
> Why users' home directory located in /usr by default, not in
> root directory unlike Linux?
> Any ideas?

Hysterical raisins. Amongst other things, /home was often given to the
automounter so people's home directories could rove. If you want to
change this,

	pw useradd -D -b /home

will probably do the trick (you will need to move existing directories).

-- 
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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