history of homedirs on unices

[Brad Parker]

Bert Thomas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I wonder: nowadays most unices have their homedirectories in /home. 
>Minix however used to have its homedirectories in /usr. Did "real" 
>unices used to have the homedirectories their as well? Can someone tell 
>something about how that evolved? I'm probably to young to know (31).

as I recall, all unix's up through bsd would default to putting users
in /usr. I think when sun went diskless with nfs they started moving
user dirs out of /usr.

certainly when things like automounter became popular (mostly on suns
as I remember) alternate pathnames for user dir popped up.

I would claim that all bsd and pre-bsd's used /usr for home dirs.

-brad