From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-25, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-24 12:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > That way a user might not know that /home is not mounted, create files   
   > on root partition until it fills up, and later have problems   
   > recovering the files in either place.   
   >   
   > The best thing if /home can not be mounted is to crash. Have the user   
   > solve the situation however he sees fit, which can be to use root   
   > instead. His decision then.   
      
   Have the graphical login manager (if this is the problem here) depend on   
   the service/script which mounts filesystems and fail if /home does not   
   get mounted, or if the script has any failure, leaving you with just the   
   virtual console terminal emulators?   
      
   That way you know something is amiss. What fails here is if you're still   
   able to graphically login as root and you want the login screen   
   available for that.   
      
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   Nuno Silva   
      
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