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From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: time dependent login
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Date: 11 Jun 90 14:52:56 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.081403.10065@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG
(Derek E. Terveer) writes:

$ On sun os systems, which are bsd derivitives, if a user attempts to login
$ without a home directory, they *are* allowed to login and are plopped into
$ "/", i.e., root.

That's not the point.  I think you are responding to someone whose
suggestion was to make the home directory owned by root and
*unreadable* and *unwritable* to the user.  The question is, would
*this* prevent a login?
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