On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:00, Michael Favia wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > >Not on systems where the home directory is NFS mounted ;) > > > > > > > This might be a silly question but cant we test if this is the case? > No, Nfs mounted (or afs, for that matter) dirs could be simply be automounted. You'd have to know: 1. where the user's homedir is (which, of course, we do) 2. follow that path out to figure out what controls it: afs, autofs, nfs, cifs, etc. 3. determine what to do in that case. it's not necessarily impossible, but it's damned hard and complicated for limited benefit. -sv
