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   Richard Kettlewell to The Natural Philosopher   
   Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you nee   
   24 Jan 26 14:15:22   
   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   > 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   
      
   Or apply the KISS principle and have /home on the root partition.   
      
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