[21119] in Athena Bugs
Re: /home -> /mit symlink
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Nov 25 11:59:26 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Stephen Gildea <gildea@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 25 Nov 2002 11:59:21 -0500
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On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:52, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> I propose that /home be a symlink to /mit on Athena.
/home is where local home directories might go on a private machine.
Making it a symlink to /mit would interfere with that. (Private
workstation owners could break the /home symlink, perhaps, but they
might find that some users were relying on it.)