Questions tagged [home-directory]
A home directory (or "home folder" on Windows and Mac OSes) is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system.
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Managing access to multiple linux system
A searched for answers but have found nothing on here...
Long story short: a non-profit organization is in dire need of modernizing its infrastructure. First thing is to find an alternatives to ...
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/home/vhosts/ or /var/www/
Some web servers I've come across use /home to store the site files:
/home/vhosts/www.example.com/
Others use /var like:
/var/www/www.example.com/
What's more clean and "Linuxy"? Should we all be ...
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Is it feasible to have home folder hosted with NFS?
I'm planning to deploy some kiosk computers and would like to leave them with a small pendrive as boot disk, keeping the rest at an easy to back up server, ala LTSP.
Right now I'm pondering two ...
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How to setup Home Folders for 40 windows users
I am a developer (not a sysadmin) and need some help with best practices for setting up home folders.
Currently, I have 40 users that save all their 'my documents' kind of documents on their local ...
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HALP! I've inherited a permissions nightmare for redirected folders/home directories
My new employer has folder redirection setup for its hundreds of users, and the person who set it up didn't really know what he was doing. As a result, the best practices for permissions on ...
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How do I change the default location for a users home directory in Vista?
I would like to move the default location of my c:\Users\USERNAME to another drive. What is the easiest way to do this and how?
I know that I can move each of my "Special Folders" like Documents, ...
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Mounting Linux user home directories on CIFS server
I was wondering about peoples experiences with mounting users home directories from an Active Directory authenticated CIFS server under Linux. Preferably the mount would be accomplished upon login ...
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It is fair to jail my SFTP users to their home directory?
roots. I'm running an Ubuntu 9.04 (home) Server on my LAN. I currently use it to store little web apps, photos, some subversion repository and stuff like that. My (few) users are friends of mine and I ...
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Difference between Roaming profiles, User Profile, Home Folder, and Redirected Folders?
On the network where I work, it appears at various times people have had roaming profiles, user profiles, redirected folders, and home folders.
What are the purposes and differences between these?
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Script to reset home directory permissons on a windows share
Has anyone used a script to reset the permissions on a directory of Home Directories? I'm thinking some combination of FOR loops and CACLS to add an inheritable Modify permission to a folder using ...
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Using Powershell to bulk change the Home folder path of AD objects - %username"?
I have done a lot of searching on this, and still cannot find the answer.
I have created a script which will bulk move all user objects in one OU to another OU. This works fine. Now I am trying to ...
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Windows Create Domain User's Home Directory Before Login
I am trying to prepopulate a user's home directory before they log in for the first time. I would like to do this programmically. Right now, I can create a the folder, but when a user logs in, it ...
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VsFTPd - pam_mkhomedir
I am trying to set up a FTP server that authenticates against an LDAP server. This part is done and works. My server is VsFTPd on Ubuntu Server 11.04.
But I have to create the home directories for my ...
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Shrinking or removing home partition in CentOS 7 installation [closed]
I made the mistake of creating a home partition that fills up all my disk space, and it's formatted in XFS, which to my knowledge isn't shrinkable.
Since I have no use for the home partition anyway (...
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Setting up ProFTPd with default home directory based on username
I am setting up ProFTPd with MySQL authentication. It works so far, I can connect. However, I want to set the SQLDefaultHomedir directive so that I don't have to include it in my database. I want to ...