[cobalt-users] Site paths

["victoria.tc.ca" <wz297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When a user on the system is using telnet and cd..'s down past their home
dir, how does the user know what site they are in? How would they know if
they belong to site1, site2, site3 and so on........

I guess they could just user the cd command to go back to their home dir and
the pwd command to get the system path for configuring CGI and Perl scripts,
but their must be an easier way to do this. Maybe perhaps naming the HOME
dir the same as the username?? or is this done to restrict hackers from
getting usernames?? But on the otherside if it was a hacker that knew a bit
about the Unix O/S they would know that the users names are in the password
file, and httpd.conf file, log files, and the list goes on and on.

Is their a way to change the user creation process to create the user dirs
with the same name as the user name? This is the first time I have seen this
type of setup on a Unix system and I think it is an unnecessary step in the
user creation process. Anyone have any sudjustions, I would like to here
them.

Thank you
Randall Clark