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Re: [cobalt-users] Overcoming the /~username problem
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Overcoming the /~username problem
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Mar 29 20:27:00 2003
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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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