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[songbird]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 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/

  ugh!  i forgot that /usr should be read only for
most normal people.  i guess /opt could be used instead
with config changes going into /var/opt but i don't 
really like that either.  i'd much rather keep all user 
information under the specific user home directory.


>>   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.

  :)


  songbird