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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
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Surely /home come out of the automounter convention to point
/home/<foo> at whichever /export/<host>/<filesystem>/<homedir>
directory YP said was the logged in users home directory?  This all
originates from the days of diskless/dataless Sun workstations.

--lyndon