User directories integration - request for help

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 08:47:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Could you add please add a dot dir containing (hard|sym) links pointing to
> whatever renamed directories the user configured at the moment ?

Symlinks are a bad idea, they will leak out into the user interface (in
file selectors and whatnot) and are not supported by all filesystems
(lots of people use SMB homedirs). Hardlinks are not even possible for
directories.

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