On 25.07.2013 11:33, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > -------- Cancelled posting -------- > On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > Applications have different means of finding out what the HOME directory > > of a given user is. The HOME environment variable is just one of them. > > Other popular ones include the function calls getpwuid() and getpwuid(); > > they basically read the data from /etc/passwd so your only way to work > > around that and pretend having a different home directory would be to > > override those calls with LD_PRELOAD... > > Thank you Gaetan, > > but this fails too: > > $ LD_PRELOAD=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1/ /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal > ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1/' from LD_PRELOAD > cannot be preloaded: ignored. > > Regards, > Ralf > -------- End of cancelled posting -------- > > Assumed I would be able to do it, then I need to write new calls that > will replace those calls? > > Maybe my suggestion produces some major drawbacks that I don't recognize at the moment, but couldn't you just use symlinks for the conf files & dirs and change those symlinks' targets via scripts if you want to use a different configuration? Or make /home/yourusername a symlink to the home directory you want to use at the moment?
