is /dev/null a vaild Home Directory??

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• From: "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:57:02 +0800
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Hi,

	I'm creating a bunch of users on the server that only needs to have 
samba file share access. Their Shell is /sbin/nologin.

Currently, all of them have home directories, which I do not want. 
Can I put in /dev/null as their default home directory??


Cheers,
OW

        

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