Re: [cobalt-users] Overcoming the /~username problem

[Lillith Lesanges <lillith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 06:02 ante, Ian wrote:
> Anyone any ideas of how to easily overcome the age of problem of 
> people loggin into a Raq4r and landing in the siteadmin folder and 
> then uploading everything by mistake to that folder.

While I agree that in general, education is the answer, I have found a 
situation where education cannot help.

End users (ie, clients) who use IE as their FTP client.  I have a 
couple client for whom no amount of education will change this basic 
fact.

I cannot determine -any- URL which will get IE to find the siteadmin 
web folder.

I tried symlinks (to no avail, even with srm.conf changes).  In the 
end, the only thing I could think of was to manually change the homedir 
of the user in /etc/passwd (via vipw).  That, of course, totally mucks 
up the GUI.

Anyone else have any suggestions beyond 'try another ftp client' and 
'live with a broken gui'?

Lillith K. Lesanges
IT Department, MIS, Inc.
systems@xxxxxxxxxx