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   John-Paul Stewart to Nuno Silva   
   Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you nee   
   23 Jan 26 18:51:35   
   
   From: jpstewart@personalprojects.net   
      
   On 2026-01-23 6:33 p.m., Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >   
   > What's still puzzling me here is that passwd and shadow are under /etc,   
   > so... login should work regardless of /home being mounted or not?   
   It depends on the setting of DEFAULT_HOME in /etc/login.defs.  If it is   
   set to "no" the login attempt will fail in the absence of their home   
   directory.  If set to "yes", the login attempt will succeed and the user   
   will land in / instead of $HOME.   
      
   So the behaviour can be controlled by the system administrator.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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