On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > grep nick /etc/passwd > nick:x:1000:100::/home/nick:/bin/bash > > which means uid 1000, gid 100
nothing...it's a preference thing ("ls -land ~" has fewer characters to
type). My solution relies that you own your own home directory, but I've
never seen a configuration where a user doesn't own their home directory.
Tim Wright
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
University of Canterbury
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
