From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-24 00:51, John-Paul Stewart wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   # Should login be allowed if we can't cd to the home directory?   
   # Default is no.   
   #   
   DEFAULT_HOME    yes   
      
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