Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I intentionally eschew /home on a few systems. 4.4BSD had a convention of
placing user home directories in /a, /b, etc. 4.4BSD-Lite also had
/var/users. Both of which I occasionally use.
The /a convention seems to go back quite a long way. I was looking through
old password files to see where the home directories were, e.g.
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/etc/passwd
has a lot of /a/guest whereas 4.3BSD has /usr/guest
Tony.
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