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



Lillith Lesanges wrote:

>  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.

And that _will_ cause the entire site to be deleted if you delete the
user.

If you're going to do it this way, be sure to change back the
/etc/passwd file before deleting the user.  Or hope you have a good
backup.

Jeff
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