User Directories

[Michael Stefanik]

In an article, somsky at brl.mil (William R. Somsky) writes:
|I've heard suggestions of soft-linking '/u' or
|'/u/<username>' to directories on '/usr', but can anyone think of a
|reason that I wouldn't want to just put all users DIRECTLY on the
|'/usr' partition, say, in something like '/usr/u', and modify
|'/etc/passwd' to match?  (Is it perhaps that SMIT insists on putting
|users in'/u'?)  

SMIT actually has nothing to do with the actual creation of the user
account; the real job is done by mkuser.  To change the filesystem
that the user accounts are created, edit /etc/security/mkuser.default
and change the "home" stanza.  You'll grok it when you see it.

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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
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