Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes: > +.. _s-nonexistent: > + > +Non-existent home directories > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > + > +The canonical non-existent home directory is ``/nonexistent``. Users > +who should not have a home directory should have their home directory > +set to this value. > + > +The Debian autobuilders set HOME to ``/nonexistent`` so that packages > +which try to write to a home directory will fail to build. > + > .. _s-sysvinit: > > System run levels and ``init.d`` scripts > > > -- > Sean Whitton Seconded. d
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