Am 11. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Michael Knee so:

> If you change the root of your home directories to to something other than
> "/home" you change one variable -- HOME -- and you're back in business.
>
> If you have multiple roots (not recommended) you would need multiple
> structures.
>
> If you have home directories scattered all over the place you're soon going
> to wind up with an unmaintainable mess.

I've been a few places where that was necessary. Today most are probably
scriptable, e.g. ASU with something like:

/afs/users/<first_letter_of_username>/<second_letter_of_username>/<username>

This also presumes you're never going to work on system accounts.

ciao,

der.hans
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