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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
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Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I intentionally eschew /home on a few systems. 4.4BSD had a convention of
> placing user home directories in /a, /b, etc. 4.4BSD-Lite also had
> /var/users. Both of which I occasionally use.

The /a convention seems to go back quite a long way. I was looking through
old password files to see where the home directories were, e.g.

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/etc/passwd

has a lot of /a/guest whereas 4.3BSD has /usr/guest

Tony.
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