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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Merging (Using the Same) Documents/Users Folders 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do I initiate a “portable home directory” or “mobile account” sync from the command line on OS X?
I've got my labs set up using portable home directories with OS X server -- I've got a user who needs to initiate the PHD sync remotely -- is there any way to do this from the command line?
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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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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?
Kindness,
Dan
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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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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 ...
