I think it would be safe to wager that the majority of accounts on a MacOS X
computer do not have home directories.
Only those accounts that have been set up for a person will have a home
directory. All other accounts, such as windowserver, postfix, nobody, and
root have no home directory.
Greg
On 3/30/06 8:41 PM, "Paul J. Lucas" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Alex Shepard wrote:
>
>> On Mar 30, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>>
>>> Is it ever possible that $HOME not be set for a user? If so,
>>> how?
>>
>> $ export HOME=
>> $ unset HOME
>> % setenv HOME
>>
>> could all leave users with an empty $HOME
>
> I mean for non-geek users who don't take deliberate action.
>
> - Paul
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