24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
12:23 p.m.
Bert Thomas wrote:
Hi,
I wonder: nowadays most unices have their homedirectories in /home.
Minix however used to have its homedirectories in /usr. Did "real"
unices used to have the homedirectories their as well? Can someone tell
something about how that evolved? I'm probably to young to know (31).
as I recall, all unix's up through bsd would default to putting users
in /usr. I think when sun went diskless with nfs they started moving
user dirs out of /usr.
certainly when things like automounter became popular (mostly on suns
as I remember) alternate pathnames for user dir popped up.
I would claim that all bsd and pre-bsd's used /usr for home dirs.
-brad