[geeks] Solaris 11.4 /home puzzle

[Jonathan Katz]

In OLD versions it used to be automount reserved home... could be that
it's still there? You'll want to monkey with /etc/auto_home,
/etc/auto_master and friends?

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:52 PM William Barnett-Lewis
<wlewisiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don't know but I intend to follow this thread because that's something I'd
> like to understand too.
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:50 AM Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Solaris 11.4 really wants to put home directories under /export/home.
> >
> > I don't want them there.  I have other plans for /export.  I want to put
> > them under /home.  But /home on Solaris 11.4 is somehow ...  special.
> >
> > epsilon3:root:/mnt/morpheus/export/src/xnedit-1.4.0:32 # ls -ld /home/
> > dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jan  9 14:07 /home//
> > epsilon3:root:/mnt/morpheus/export/src/xnedit-1.4.0:33 # chmod o+w /home
> > chmod: WARNING: can't change /home
> >
> > Does anyone here know something I don't about Solaris 11.4 that would
> > explain this?  Why is /home special or reserved?  It almost seems as
> > though it exists solely to prevent you from using it.
> >
> >
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