Re: how to set up 'no need for ability to handle multiple users on machine'
- From: "Rajko M." <kakomo123@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:16:25 -0600
toby989@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
alrightalright, I see running as root is not so good. Yes on my windows, I
am running always, not as admin, but as user having admin rights.
Which is lesser rights than root.
XP will replace critical system files if deleted by user with administrator
rights, Linux will not, as root's will is the top one.
Independent of that, what I was thinking is that if there is, and will be,
only one user (apart from root) on the system, then there is no need to
distinguish between multiple users, and a specific user folder is
obsolete.
If you want to change this it is OK, but be aware that $HOME points to
whatever is set as user directory.
How is $HOME created?
$HOME=/home/$USER
If you want to change above you have to find the place where it is set.
Then, from the mess that I saw over the years in windows, some (many)
applications give a s**t about the personalized "My Documents" folders and
store user documents somewhere on c:. I expect this ignorance be the same
for suse.
SUSE is Linux and for many Linux applications default document folder is
current folder or `pwd`. For KDE applications it is $HOME/Documents .
On the other hand, where should data sit that I serve to the
user on the system and potentially other users on the network. I guess my
question is, where does for example MySQL store the data, under the
"Documents" folder of my user?
But I see that I may need to switch to relative paths, away from my
years-old way of having absolute paths (c:\project\project1\code).
Relative to system variables as in $HOME/Documents example.
To see other shell variables you can run in console:
set | less
or
set | $PAGER
;-)
That will let you see how many custom shell functions is defined when you
log in.
--
Regards, Rajko.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
.
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