Allegedly, on or about 09 April 2013, Kevin Martin sent: > As for using ~ instead of /home/username, while unusual it's > definitely possible for somebody to *not* have their homespace under > /home. For example, on many machines I've seen root's homespace as > simply /root, not /home/root (and other special usernames that > applications runas are often homed to the application path) so using > the /home/username convention fails in that case anyway. ... And the ~/ convention works like most of expects it to. There's probably a very large number of users where home is over a network, and might not be mapped into the /home/username convention, at all. On all the RedHat and Fedora Linux installed machines, that I've seen, and a few others, the root user's homespace was always /root. The logic being that / would always have to be mounted, but /home might only be there on a computer that was up and running in the normal manner. I've yet to see a daemons have a /home/daemonname space, those that have a homespace could have one anywhere on the filesystem tree, but usually disallowing logons. (Temporarily making it possible for gdm to logon was the trick I used to make it possible to customise the gdm logon screen.) If you look through /etc/password, you can see that there's a plethora of different places set up as the homespace for them (/etc/daemonname, /usr/share/daemonname, /var/lib/daemonname, /var/spool/daemonname, just to name a few of them). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:09:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't use Windows. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
