Hi,

Can I just quick pick everyone brain here about the following:

There is a security audit going on at the company I work for and one of the things that needed to be resolved was that there were a lot of users who don't have a home directory.
As this is a fairly large environment of over 500 servers, there are a lot of users with this sort of problem (+300). Most of these are actual user accounts but some of them are application users.
I thought of solving the issue by writing a script that will resolve this by creating the users homedir if it doesn't exist and adjust the passwd file accordingly. But before I will start on this, I'd like to know if this action might have other woeful implications which I haven't thought about yet... So has anyone ever encountered a reason as why not to create or set a homedir?