On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> <<<<<snipped a bunch>>>>> > > None of the /home/user/* are available to the system until you are logged > in, and then you cannot play with those files in wholesale renaming > quantities.<<<<<snipped a bunch>>>>> > They are all available (to root) when the system is booted (after the appropriate disk directory is mounted). Actually, you can play with those files and do most stuff. Things that you can do safely (as root): 1. edit /etc/passwd to change anyone's uid, gid, or change the home directory 2. edit /etc/sudoers to give anyone sudo permission 3. change the permissions on any file or directory (a directory is just another file) 4. change the owner gid, uid of a file 5. add users, remove users, ... Things you better not do: 1. change the locations, permissions, etc of core utilities (bash, rm, chmod, su, ...) 2. remove core utilities Things in the first group are normally done when logged in as root. Yes, you could do it at boot time as a script in rc.local (or elsewhere), but that would require creating a script, then rebooting to run it, then removing it (or making it idempotent when it was created.) That's really not a good idea. Regards, Ken > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
