From: Alexander Frost (afrost@citadel.com)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 14:36:51 EDT
This question has been bugging me for a while now, I just finally
remembered to ask this time.
On multiple machines with fresh installs of 7, 8 and 9 in which the
entire OS is installed under one slice, so everything is on one
partition (/) I find this problem......
Now when I do an "ls" after install I notice a directory called /home
The permissions on this directory are dr-xr-xr-x so its not writeable..
so I go and chmod 755 /home and if tells me "chmod: WARNING: can't
change home" yet I am root. I cannot make a directory in /home and I
cannot delete /home YET everytime I do "useradd joe" it makes Joe's home
directory /home/joe .... Why would this be.. if you cannot do anything
to /home why make a users home dir point to a place in /home that can
never exist?
So what is the point of /home and why can't I delete it or use it.
Thank you, I would appreciate any light on this issue.
Lex
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