Webservd Default Home Directory
Someone currently building an internal development environment required some integration between servers using SSH and the webservd user.
He came to me when he saw that the default home directory for the webservd user is /. He didn't want to create a /.ssh/authorized_keys file and I didn't blame him. My first reaction was to change the home directory but I didn't want to break something so I opened up Google and found something incredible.
DISCLAIMER: The following is quoted from documentation at docs.sun.com (emphasis is mine). I do not recommend you actually listen to it's instructions: