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From: julie@levell.austin.ibm.com (Julie A. Levell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: User Directories
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Date: 29 Apr 91 16:10:05 GMT
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In article <709@aos.brl.mil> somsky@brl.mil (William R. Somsky) writes:
>With the '/usr' partition sucking up almost the entire hard-drive on
>installation, is there really any good reason for putting users on a
>seperate '/u' partiton?  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'?)  
>
>Any comments on this matter?

No, smit (or mkuser) will let you put home directories where ever you
like.  You should also check out /etc/security/mkuser.sys
which creates the user's home directories, etc.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

>
>							W R Somsky


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