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   The Natural Philosopher to Nuno Silva   
   Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you nee   
   24 Jan 26 11:11:37   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/01/2026 23:33, 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?   
      
   Many configurations are stored in /home/username   
      
   The answer is to have a skelatal /home  populated before you mount the   
   real home volume over it   
      
      
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