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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Simple System Question
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Date: 19 Dec 90 22:17:00 GMT
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In article <10978@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes:
>In article <1058@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>>Edit /etc/nu.cf
>>On NeXTs it's considered conventional to create home directories
>>under /Users/.
>
>Actually, it's /user/

Nope. Quote from the new Network and System Administration manual
(p41):
begin quote===
Home Directory:
The home directory for a new user is set to "/" in the long form. Each
account should have its own individual home directory; because of
this, it's a good idea to change this field. The default is /user,
where user is *replaced* (emphasis added) by the account name of this
account, but a more general solution is to put users in /Users/user.
...
end quote===

Actually the manual is slighly missleading as it would be clearer if
they had used username instead of user. Nevertheless the conventional
thing is /Users/username as the path for homedirectories. Having them
in the root directory is a mess in any case.

Ronald
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