On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:07:36PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > If you login and $HOME as established in /etc/passwd > > is not there bad things happen. In some systems you will > > be given / or /tmp as a home dir. In other systems you > > cannot login at all. > > On the other hand, given that the original concept was to mount the home > directory *at* /home/username (see the title), if the filesystem is not > mounted, all you will get is the empty directory. It is quite possible > to put a few scratch login files there (so you have a basic environment > available when the mount fails): under normal circumstances, they will > be hidden by the mounted filesystem. > > But you shouldn't need *any* files in /home/username just to log in. This is true. As long as the dir is there login should be fine. However all the setup that copies of /etc/skel/* files bring in will be lacking in the environment of the user. Not the end of the world but interesting in the details. -- T o m M i t c h e l l In the USA, vote informed, second Tuesday Nov 2004.
