On 2024-09-02 05:36, bent fender wrote:
Sun, 1 Sep 2024 22:14:18 -0400 Felix Miata <> :
bent fender composed on 2024-09-01 06:30 (UTC-0400):
I'll have to be clearer paraphrasing my setup:
- all users are members of group g (1999)
- one data drive is mounted in fstab @ /data all users and group: rwx, others: r
- some users' homes are under /home such as home/u0
- some users' homes are links like /home/ux pointing to /data/ux/Tw (in the case of Tumbleweed). In my Slackware system for example /home/ux points to /data/ux/sLk and so on
- all those users that are actually me have links like /data/ux/0 pointing to /data/ux/zero hosting for example my Sylpheed folders so that it doesn't matter which distro I boot using which desktop my email always works in the same folder. There are other similira rigs for common dolphinrc and like configs. Some apps are conviviality-hogs and resist such efforts so they will soon get dumped, Mozila leading the way because Pan (like many others) is not problematic. Ubuntu's snap or whaaaateeevr was also a conviviality-hog and refused to allow this so Ubuntu-Studio also got dumped.
Instead of symlinks, you could have a different home listed in /etc/passwd: cer-k:x:1040:100:someone:/data/someone:/bin/bash However, it is generally not a good idea to have two distributions use the same home folder, because their configuration files could be different. It is better to use different folder, and symlink the data folders of applications. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)