is /dev/null a vaild Home Directory??

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:07:28AM -0700, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:07:28 -0700
> From: "Bevan C. Bennett" <bevan at fulcrummicro.com>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: is /dev/null a vaild Home Directory??
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> 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.

I have also used it as far back as I can recall.
Just curious what does "pwck" tell you?




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