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Re: Root sending messages to users



2008/6/21 Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will
>> habitually back it up, and always worry that there are files there
>> that I need to know about, and set up the environment just how I like,
>> and and and... I don't need any of that.
>
> Isn't it possible to have a script that mounts your home directory from
> a remote location automatically?
>

Why would I do that? I am SSHing in from the machine with my home
directory. In order to either put/get a file, or so sudo some
administrative work.

While I agree that every user of a machine should have his own home
directory, I am not a user of that machine. I am an administrator
(ha!) of that machine.

Dotan Cohen

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