Re: is /dev/null a vaild Home Directory??

From: Bevan C. Bennett (bevan_at_fulcrummicro.com)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:07:28 -0700
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    Ow Mun Heng wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm creating a bunch of users on the server that only needs to have
    > samba file share access. Their Shell is /sbin/nologin.
    >
    > Currently, all of them have home directories, which I do not want.
    > Can I put in /dev/null as their default home directory??

    I've always used /dev/null for non-users that don't need to store any
    regular user config files and haven't had a problem yet.

    I don't know if it's the recommended method, but it certainly seems to work. 

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