Globe Trotter wrote: > I usually keep the userspace in another partition, /usr/local (let > us say /usr/local/trotter. I'm curious, why not just have /home be on a different partition? That seems more elegant to me (and would work better with SELinux as well, though you might not care if you disable SELinux or run in permissive mode :). > Previously, I would add skip the create user step and log in as root > and then create user with directory using system-config-users. > However, this is apparently no longer allowed, and I am required to > create an user. How do I get this user to have its "home" in > /usr/local/trotter? I guess one way out is to create a fake user and > then go in, use system-config-users and then delete the fake user. > Is there a more elegant way? This is the sort of task I'd do from a text console (but then, I say that sort of thing a lot ;). If you create the user trotter at first boot, use CTRL-ALT-F2 at the login screen to get to a console. Then login as root and use something like: # usermod -m --home /usr/local/trotter trotter The -m option moves the current home dir to the new dir. Obviously, you don't want trotter logged in when you do this. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. -- Saki
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