$HOME of system users like nobody or stats

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:00:00PM +0100, Pawe? Zuzelski wrote:
> mount.davfs (provided by davfs2 package) does not allow
> non-root user to mount filesystem into another users home
> directory. Problem is that home directory of nobody and stats
> users (both provided by setup package) is "/".
> 
> I would like to change home directory of these users to
> "/usr/share/empty". Will it break something?

$ egrep '^(nobody|sshd):' /etc/passwd 
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/var/nobody:/dev/null
sshd:x:109:117::/var/empty:/dev/null

(it's ALT Linux, Owl GNU/*/Linux does probably the same)

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