From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid

On 2026-01-23, 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.

Ah, that explains it, thanks.

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Nuno Silva

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