[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Shaya Potter: > The one problem which that causes, is that sometimes you have fake user > accounts, and some of them even have home directories. There tend to be few of those, and they are all well known. An exception list is a better idea than maintaining two separate lists of users. > Glad you could have some fun from what I wrote, I told you I hadn't > thought it totally through. :-) Having fun is what we're here to do. Taking over the world is a side-effect. :-) > No, I meant not to modify the user's files, just a method to drop files > into the home directories if neccessary. Such as, when I tried to use > The Gimp, it needed a .gimprc which it didn't automatically make. I > therefore had to make an empty .gimprc and it worked. However, this > might not always work. Even merely adding the files may cause trouble. If nothing else, it uses up their disk quota. The users' home directories are sacred: Thou shalt not touch them. If GIMP doesn't work without a ~/.gimprc, then it is broken and needs to be fixed. The same thing applies (with few exceptions) to programs that do not read both a global and a per-user configuration. -- Please read <http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html> before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list.
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