A home directory on removeable storage ...

... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting the filesystem. Additionally there can be a backup home directory which stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine that when the machine powers up without the removeable storage, ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2013 - 11:40 AM ET

Bug#683074: "maildrop: Unable to change to home directory" with 0750 directory

Package: maildrop Version: 2.2.0-3.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hello, Here is the way to reproduce this bug. I was able to reproduce this bug on debian stable and freebsd 9. apt-get install maildrop add a user testuser and a group ...

Message posted on the July 28th, 2012 - 08:50 am ET

[Samba] ADUC tool cannot creates users home directory

Hello everybody, if I use Microsoft's Active Directory & Users tool to add a home drive mapping to a users profile, I encounter the problem that ADUC tool cannot create automatically the home directory for the desired user. ADUC tool fails with ...

Message posted on the March 27th, 2013 - 09:40 am ET

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Hi, many packages have to create system accounts on installation. Unfortunately, Debian policy is not quite clear on how to handle these. On the other hand, Debian QA is keen on addressing issues in account ...

Message posted on the July 01st, 2012 - 06:30 am ET

Moving home directory between who PCs

I use two PCs at different locations and wish to "move" my home directory between the locations by means of a usb memory stick. The idea is to link my home folder to the usb memory in both PCs ("ln - s /media/usb_memory/my_user_name ...

Message posted on the May 18th, 2012 - 12:59 pm ET

Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

Package: adduser Version: 3.113+nmu3 Severity: serious Hi, I am really sorry having to file this. When a package uses adduser --system without explicitly specifying the home directory of the new user, its home directory gets set to /home/$USER. ...

Message posted on the July 01st, 2012 - 05:50 am ET

Bug#514542: okular: runs open() and stat64() 632 times on certain files in home directory

Package: okular Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: normal I was trying to find out why okular what slow to start up and ran strace on it. I found that even though okular was run from a directory other than my home directory, for files whose extension was ...

Message posted on the February 08th, 2009 - 12:30 pm ET

More advanced home directory creation in Debian?

I got this idea from Debian Edu, where we need to run scripts when a user is created to create files adjusted for each user, and we would like this to work with any tool used to create users. At the moment, a users home directory is created by ...

Message posted on the August 03rd, 2010 - 05:30 am ET

[Samba] Your home directory is listed as :'home/xxxx' but it does not appear to exist

Hi all, I had been trying to log in from my client machine in to the ldap+samba3.3 server machine, but i could not log on to the ldap+samba3.3 server machine successfully. Everytime i tried to log on, it popped-up with three dialog boxes one after ...

Message posted on the December 16th, 2010 - 01:20 am ET

Problem that has never been resolved, Mapped home directory

I have posted this question a few times and lots of responses with the same problem. I am using 2003 R2 Server with Active Directory. When I set up the students and staff when I create their profile and Active directory I map their home directory ...

Message posted on the March 18th, 2009 - 10:08 am ET

vsftpd chroot to a place other than home directory

Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask. I've got vsftpd up and running. I figured out how to chroot users to just their home directory. However there are a couple of things I want to do now that I'm not sure how to do. I have one user we're ...

Message posted on the March 26th, 2009 - 08:05 am ET

Bug#609896: puppet-common: home directory `/var/lib/puppet' permissions issue

Package: puppet-common Version: 2.6.2-4 Hello, On a new installation (not a package upgrade) of the puppet-common package from the squeeze repositories, this error is displayed: Setting up puppet-common (2.6.2-4) ... adduser: Warning: The home ...

Message posted on the January 13th, 2011 - 12:20 pm ET

davfs2 home directory is group writable

On my new installation of mdv2010.2, msec calls to my attention the following: Security Warning: these home directory should not be owned by someone else or writable : user=davfs2(492) : home directory is group writable. I am aware that msec ...

Message posted on the December 28th, 2010 - 10:25 am ET

Bug#585666: feh: FTBFS: Relies on writable home directory?

Source: feh Version: 1.6.1-1 Severity: serious Justification: FTBFS Hi, it looks like feh FTBFS when the home directory is missing or write-protected: | # Failed test 'missing arguments print usage (stderr)' | # at test/feh.t line 44. | # ...

Message posted on the June 12th, 2010 - 06:00 pm ET

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