[SunHELP] home directories

james james at jdfogg.com
Tue Nov 30 13:21:58 CST 2004


> What is the "proper" way to proceed here?  Change the perms on /home so that
> root can create directores or change the default home directory base to
> /export/home?  In the linux world it's /home/user.  I'm not really sure
> where this /export/home/user thing comes from.

/export/home is the norm for Solaris. It's called "export" because it
usually IS exported via NFS to a central server. That allows you to have
the same home directory no matter what machine you log into.

It's nice to be *home* on any machine.



More information about the SunHELP mailing list