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[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:35:26PM -0500, songbird wrote:

> >>   if the system doesn't have home directories but does have
> >> /usr/local you can put things in there (just check to make
> >> sure first that you aren't clobbering someone else's directories
> >> or files :) ).
> >
> > I don't that that's typically writable to for any odd user.
> 
>   i'm assuming the person can get that changed if desired
> or change it themselves.  if not, then it would be a
> rather strange situation IMO, to not have a home directory
> and to also not have some other place to put things.

On a Linux system the only other place that should, by
default, offer writable disk space is /tmp/ , I guess.

Or else /media/$USER/a-user-mounted-removable-media/

>   at the moment i'm assuming that recent Mac's should
> be posix and have a $HOME and allow for $HOME/.local/share
> and $HOME/.config

Surely they should.

Karsten
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