On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 04:38 -0700, sridhar wrote:
> in my computer science graduation course. Since 1997, I have been
> using windows and installing and reinstalling windows and several user
> related applications. I created, modified and deleted several

That might be part of your problem.  Unix isn't Windows.  Windows isn't
Unix.  Neither one of them is FAULTY because it isn't the other.

> Only restricting the user to home directory is just too much
> restrictive. I want to make my user account as admin ac so that I can

Even Microsoft strongly recommends against this on Windows.

>  create directories and modify and/or delete them later. I just want
> to get out of my home dir. Is this the case even if I have multiple
> partitions under open solaris.

Creating new directories is trivial.  Under OpenSolaris, you just need
to "pfexec mkdir -p /whatever".  Then "pfexec chown <me> /whatever".
Then you never need to be root ever again to create directories within
that directory.

If you want to take it to the next level, then you can create a whole
new ZFS filesystem instead of merely a directory.  "pfexec zfs create -o
mountpoint=/whatever rpool/whatever".


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