On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 17:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: > That's not the point. Assuming the same user database (LDAP, yp, whatever), > *nothing* should stop you from logging in to the same home directory from > multiple machines. Anything that does is a bug (and yes, there are a few > still around in GNOME, which we are fixing). > > It's nothing to do with distros or operating systems or architectures being > different.
Well, of course it is a bug, but that wasn't my point. My point was that those bugs are best avoided by not re-using home directories across distribution installs. This is particularly important when you are "trialling" a new distro and want to see it in all _its_ glory, without the dags of another distro possibly stinking it up. It also ensures a cleaning of the crufty 'dot' files accumulating in your home directory, but that is a different matter. Everyone is quite happy to espouse the advantages of "/home" on a different partition, IF we didn't have to worry about bugs, I wouldn't have posted anything... Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
