Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: Paul J Gans <gans@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:13:39 +0000 (UTC)
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
toby989@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
If I know that "root", which is me and ONLY ONE single user called
"toby", which is also me, are using my computer, then a home/toby
directory seems superflous, since there will never be any other user
than toby using this PC. I would like to simplify in this situation, so
that the home directory or the root directory takes on the role of the
home/toby directory. Is that possible? during installation? is such a
case provided for in opensuse? (from what I remember in ms win 2000 it
is with a checkbox if multiple or single person will use the PC).
This option doesn't exist because it's a bad idea and doesn't simplify
anything.
In Windows it's the same. Your files are stored in "C:\Documents and
Settings\toby", while there's also a "C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator" directory, not matter if you check that checkbox
during installation or not.
There is no other way, because that's how it is designed to be. I
wonder what you're trying to "simplify" here. Get rid of that? /root?
/home/toby? Forget /root, you won't be using it. You *shouldn't* be
using it. Only login as root when you really need to. Which means
almost never.
The only function root normally has is to get system mail when
the system wants to complain to root. That can be fixed by
directing root's mail to "toby".
I look into root's directory once every couple of months, if I
remember to. It never changes.
The only thing I have there is my notes on how I set the machine
up after installation.
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--- Paul J. Gans
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