Re: user-directory _is_ home directory

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:29:20PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > my question is: does anyone have any recommendations on how to deal
> > with /home being a mount point, and also being a user's home directory.
> 
> why would you want to do so?

 this is almost entirely off-topic, but i'm explaining it in case anyone
 who would otherwise be discouraged from answering if they didn't feel
 that there was a reasonable justification for removing /home/XXXX.

 background:

 there is only one user: they do not have a password, they will not
 be given a password.  they will not be given the root password, they
 will most likely not know what a root password _is_, the target users
 are in fact extremely unlikely to CARE about passwords [which is the
 whole reason why i'm using selinux, because such people are scarey]

 i'm installing usb-mount and autofs with --timeout 5 and
 integrating the two so that they don't have to deal with
 umount.  this is for people who don't know what umount is,
 and don't really care, but _do_ care about their files getting
 corrupted on their usb memory cards and usb floppy drives.

 answer:

 in kde's devices, the user is presented with /boot, /usr, /var, / and
 /home.

 none of these things are in the SLIGHTEST bit useful to a user that
 doesn't know and doesn't care, and i wish there was a way to damn well
 get rid of them ALL from konqueror.

 in order to minimise the amount of impact on such users - think c:\ - 
 i decided to get rid of the concept of /home/XXXX.

 after all, if there's only one user (with no password), what's the point?

 so, if i create a /MyDocuments and symlink it to
 /home/theoneandonlyuser, then that STILL leaves them with
 /home/theoneandonlyuser in the kde devices's list.
 
 l.

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