From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mummy.ncsc.mil (mummy.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.129]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i72EfRrT012842 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:41:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from moss-huskies.epoch.ncsc.mil (jazzhorn.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.9]) by mummy.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i72EetXV024523 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:40:55 GMT Received: from moss-huskies.epoch.ncsc.mil (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by moss-huskies.epoch.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i72EfEJQ032460 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:41:14 -0400 Received: (from hdholm@localhost) by moss-huskies.epoch.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i72EfEXP032458 for selinux@tycho.nsa.gov; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:41:14 -0400 Received: from mummy.ncsc.mil (mummy.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.129]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i71KGerT008452 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:16:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (jazzhorn.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.9]) by mummy.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i71KG852027668 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:16:08 GMT Received: from unknown (HELO hyd) (selinux@tycho.nsa.gov@81.152.10.162 with poptime) by smtp803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Aug 2004 20:16:36 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:27:40 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Erich Schubert Cc: SE-Linux Subject: Re: user-directory _is_ home directory Message-ID: <20040801202740.GG20103@lkcl.net> References: <20040801143236.GA15949@lkcl.net> <1091388560.7861.7.camel@wintermute.xmldesign.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1091388560.7861.7.camel@wintermute.xmldesign.de> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov 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. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.