[TUHS] The origin of /home

[Grant Taylor]

On 09/28/2018 11:28 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> Solaris 10 u10:
> 
> beef / # useradd asdf
> beef / # grep asdf /etc/passwd
> asdf:x:504:1::/home/asdf:/bin/sh
> 
> Solaris 11.3:
> medusa# useradd asdf
> medusa# grep asdf /etc/passwd
> asdf:x:65540:10::/export/home/asdf:/usr/bin/bash
> 
> When creating a user on Solaris 11, because it requires you to install a 
> regular user because you can't login directly as root, it creates the 
> home directory in /export/home
> 
> Interesting. To be honest, I did not expect Solaris 10 to use /home as 
> the default.

Strange.

I'd have to play with things to refine my opinion.

I've long thought that Solaris was a moving target and did things 
inconsistently.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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