directory in which all the settings and documents for a particular user are stored on a multi-user operating system
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Windows open file dialog, quick way to home directory?
I would like to navigate the Windows open file dialog entirely with the keyboard. Is there any quick way to access my home directory (c:\Users\Me)? Something like an equivalent to ~ in linux?
I use ...
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0answers
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Ubuntu home shared with windows, files missing
I have a pc in dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 and Windows 7 x64. I have the /home folder (ubuntu's) in its own ext2 partition and I read and write it with ubuntu and windows.
I access the /home ...
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0answers
32 views
Recovering home directory through ssh
I have Ubuntu server with ssh access. I've accidentally changed my home dir location to directory that doesn't exist. Now when I'm trying to login through ssh I saw following error:
Creating ...
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1answer
87 views
How do I zip a folder with 7-zip but not subfolders of that folder?
For instance, if I wanted to zip everything in My Documents, but not subfolders in My Documents, and I also did not know the name of each subfolder.
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2answers
94 views
Mount home directory after user login
I am looking for a way to mount the user's home directory after she logs in (in KDE or Gnome login manager, for example). Is it actually possible and if it is, what tools should I use to do it?
It ...
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1answer
90 views
Ubuntu - moving home directories to NTFS drive
I have a disk formatted as NTFS that I current use for sharing data with Windows machines via Samba. All of the data is in a directory on that disk called "shared." I want to move my current home ...
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1answer
34 views
Some permissions questions regarding userdir and usr/local/bin
I've enabled userdir for Apache2, and I want to serve files from var/www symlinked to directories within my /home directory (i.e. /home/code/web) - but I need to extend permissions for that folder on ...
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2answers
265 views
Home directory variable for Windows 8
Is the home directory variable for Windows 8 the same as it was for Windows 7, %UserProfile%?
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1answer
118 views
Mac OS X: Make home directory at login via SSH
I have LDAP server on Ubuntu 12.04 and Mac OS X 10.7.5 client configured via Directory Service. The NFSHomeDirectory property mapped to #/Users/$uid$. LDAP users can login to Mac via login screen or ...
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2answers
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How to get ~/foo from /home/user1/foo?
The Bash prompt supports the \w escape sequence, documented as
\w the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated
with a tilde (uses the value of the PROMPT_DIRTRIM variable)
Is ...
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1answer
108 views
$HOME environment variable edit
I have a question which might sound quite naive but I would like to confirm the behavior of the $HOME environment variable on the MAC OS X. I would like to know if we can append paths to the $HOME ...
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2answers
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Should root ever own files in my (linux) home directory?
This question started off asking why my history file wasn't working properly. Then I noticed it was -rw------- 1 root root and hadn't been updated since 2012-09-11. I changed the ownership, problem ...
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1answer
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Changed home directory permissions on remote server, can no longer ssh into it
I changed the permissions on my ~ directory, and according to this question about ssh and home directory permissions I can no longer ssh into my remote server because it rejects my public key.
Is ...
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1answer
116 views
Is there a windows equivalent to using ~/ as a shorthand symbolizing your home/user directory? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the equivalent of Linux's “~” in Windows?
For example, is there a character I can enter in place of the asterisk in the string "*\Videos" that is ...
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1answer
401 views
How to mount a shared folder on Windows 7 host as home directory for Linux guest under VMware Player
The host computer is running Windows 7 Ulitmate, the guest OS will be Linux (the brand to de decided later; likely Debian 4 or CentOS 6). The hypervisor is VMware Player 4. My problem is: how do I get ...
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2answers
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Is it bad practice to create a non user directory in /home?
I installed ubuntu on a computer and I have the OS installed on a solid state drive, and the home directories mounted from a separate hard drive. I wanted to create a folder proj which lived on the ...
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2answers
718 views
git: Delete all tracked files?
I have a directory containing a git repo as well as other unrelated files which I do not want tracked (its my home directory, sorry if this is bad practice--alternative recommendations for versioning ...
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1answer
401 views
Linux - Limit user's ftp access to home directory
I have created a user in linux (User1 for the purpose of this question). I have changed User1's home directory to a new directory. I would like to ensure that User1, when FTP'ing, cannot browse out of ...
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1answer
2k views
What does “net use /HOME” actually do?
The documentation states
Connects a user to their home directory.
The notion of a "home directory" isn't really something I'm used to in a Windows environment. Obvious web searches didn't turn up ...
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1answer
2k views
Change location of root's home directory
I would like to change the location of root's home directory from /root to /var/root. I used to be able to do this with usermod:
usermod -d /var/root root
However, with the latest version of ...
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2answers
298 views
How to open a new file in the current directory with gvim on Windows?
If I'm working on a file located on e.g. ~\myprojects\testproject\hello.txt and then want to open a new file in the same directory e.g. todo.txt (located on ~\myprojects\testproject\todo.txt), how can ...
4
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2answers
3k views
Installing a library locally in home directory, but program doesn't recognize it
I am installing a program on a server as a non-root user. Specifically it is tmux 1.5, but this should apply broadly to all locally installed program in my opinion (I mention the program name in case ...
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2answers
991 views
Rename a volume in single user mode
I have my Users directory on a separate disk on my Mac Pro running SL. That Volume was named OS X Users and the spaces were not playing well with some software. I (stupidly) renamed the Volume to ...
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2answers
460 views
Why is my home directory encrypted and inaccessible?
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu Server because I want to learn Linux and I want to learn about servers. I did a newbie tutorial and then shut down. When I booted up today, the files in my home directory ...
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3answers
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Ubuntu: default access mode (permissions) for users home dir (/home/user)
What is a default access mode (e.g. 0755) for users home dirs in Ubuntu (e.g. what is output of ls -ld /home/*)? In other major linux distribs (Debian, RedHat, Gentoo, Arch)?
How can I change this ...
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1answer
115 views
How to teach emacs on Windows about ~user/ location?
I am running Emacs v23.3.1 on a Windows 7 machine and would like Emacs to be able to resolve a ~user/ pathname in my start up files to a directory. It can resolve ~/ fine, I would like ~user/ to ...
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0answers
249 views
Merging (Using the Same) User Profile for both XP and 7
I am currently dual-booting Windows XP and Windows 7. Each OS has its own user folders (\Documents and Settings\(All Users | Bob Bobson, etc.) in XP, and \ProgramData | \Users\Bob Bobson, etc. in 7). ...
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1answer
1k views
Allowing apache access to a subdirectory in a home directory without access to the home directory
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 desktop with encrypted home directories. I do development work on my computer and I want to have my webroot directory to be within my home directory so it is encrypted with ...
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1answer
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Directories in “C:/Documents and Settings” directory
There are the following directories there
Administrator
Administrator.PIXLA09
All Users
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
LocalService
LocalService.NT AUTHORITY
LocalService.NT ...
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2answers
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Sharing Home Directory Files w/ Versioning
I'm curious if anyone has a good solution for the following 'needs':
Keeping my home directory in sync across various disparate networks
Ideally versioning the differences.
I've up until this ...
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2answers
520 views
Use one home directory for more than one operating system
I want to configure the same user account across multiple operating systems. Right now, I'm set up for general use in Mac OS 10.6.6 "Snow Leopard," and I have about 200gb of files in my home directory ...
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2answers
70 views
Special unix directories (~)
My university has a system set up where each class has its own directory for the professors to publish and receive files. These directories reside under a directory in /home which happens to be a ...
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0answers
312 views
Automatic partition mounting fails after improper shutdown of Mac OS X
Since I frequently use both Linux and Mac OS X, I am using a shared HFS+ partition as /home in Linux and /Users in OS X. From day one, OS X was smart enough to automatically mount this partition on ...
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1answer
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Testing home directory scripts by setting $HOME to the location of the test directory
I have an interdependent collection of scripts in my ~/bin directory as well as a developed ~/.vim directory and some other libraries and such in other subdirectories. I've been versioning all of ...
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1answer
1k views
Samba: share home directories when home directories are symbolic links
I have set up a new Ubuntu 9.10 system for five users. In the system is a large LVM volume where all the data is to be kept. The main system disk is not for this purpose, so I attempted to move the ...
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2answers
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How do I disable my encrypted /home/?
I need to disable my encrypted home directory because it prevents me from logging in with my fingerprint scanner when I first boot up. I'm running kubuntu 9.10.
How do I do this?
Also, how would I ...
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2answers
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Get the Google Analytics page views for a directory [closed]
I have a blog network set up with the following schema:
Blogs:
example.com/blog-1/
example.com/blog-2/
example.com/blog-3/
Posts:
example.com/blog-1/great-post.html
...
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8answers
308 views
Why not ~/dls instead of ~/Downloads?
Most folder names in the *nix world are lower case. It makes them easier to type in my opinion. However, everything in my home-dir is capitalized! Why is this? Is it possible to change them?
The ...
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6answers
670 views
Super users and the home directory
The UNIX concept of a home folder was great when users shared a single computer and had no idea where or how their files were stored in the system, but does it really make sense when a typical ...
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3answers
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How does one change user's home directory in Ubuntu 9.04?
Does anyone know how I might change my home directory in the shell please?
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3answers
273 views
freebsd: configure a different default directory
When I ssh into my freebsd I want to be automatically in another directory, and not my home directory.
I.e. instead of /users/home/john I want to be in /users/home/john/what/i/am/working/on
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6answers
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Change Default directory of Documents and Settings?
Let's say I have Windows installed on drive C, however I install all of my programs on the D drive, and I keep my user profile on the D drive as well (things like My Documents). How can I have Windows ...
