On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:54 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > 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. > One other thing to mention is that /usr is a system directory. As such its permissions are a bit touchy, and putting user files there can produce unintended consequences. I would have great reservations about this due to unexpected interactions of things such as backups, access to certain system files (through /usr/bin and /usr/sbin) for example, especially with multiple users on the system. By convention, many applications expect /home to contain user directories, and while if coding standards are followed, the shell variable $HOME will point to the correct directory, in some cases poorly written or experimental code is sometimes not so clean. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
