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   Benny Pedersen to Michiel Broek   
   Re: MBSE and FHS   
   23 Jul 13 05:01:38   
   
   Hello Michiel!   
      
   22 Jul 2013 10:31, Michiel Broek wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    MB> Benny Pedersen wrote to Michiel Broek:   
    BP>> Hello Michiel!   
    BP>>    
    BP>> 20 Jul 2013 14:02, Michiel Broek wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
    BP>>    
    BP>>  MB> And where doe $HOME points to when user benny logis in?    
    BP>>  MB> /opt/mbse/home/benny   
    BP>>    
    BP>> mbse makes home dirs in chroot ?   
      
      
    MB> No, but $MBSE_ROOT and $HOME are different for bbs users and. A normal    
    MB> bbs user logs in and gets mbsebbs as shell, but they are all members of    
    MB> the group bbs so that right on message bases etc are correct set.   
      
   confussuion to me   
       
    MB> MBSE_ROOT plays a role in that, $HOME is not really used if I remember   
   that    
    MB> correctly.   
      
   but useradd does use ~ so what was the point in createing unix users ?   
      
    MB> So anything you do with these variables is playing with fire.   
      
   chroot needs ~ somewhere :)   
      
   if mbse set it to /dev/null its works well   
      
    MB> Ok, this might be my last reaction, I'm leaving fido and are    
    MB> disconnecting all mail and files areas.   
      
   so real life takes over :(   
      
   sad to see one more good linux programmer go   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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