From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 02:01:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5416A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF0B43D31 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:01:09 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1AYjIw-000324-00; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:58:18 +0000 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:58:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: flux In-Reply-To: <1561878551.20031224123741@hotbox.ru> Message-ID: References: <1561878551.20031224123741@hotbox.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:01:18 -0000 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/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ "Impact of vulnerability: Run code of an attacker's choice Maximum Severity Rating: Moderate" -- M$ security bulletin