It's not a file, it's your /home directory. For example, my user name is
jbess, so my home directory is "/home/jbess". If you created this on a
seperate partition, then you can save most those settings. System level
passwords however are stored in the /etc/shadow file.

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.seven


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 17:15, jbander <[email protected]> wrote:

> I hate having to "re-invent" all of my settings, passwords, etc., each
> time I go on linux (Dam Small Linux). It has a place to do it but it wants
> me to name it ,everything I put in there for a name it comes back that it
> won't work or thats not a address for the settings. It has to be in /home
> is that correct. then what would be the rest of the address. What can it be
> called.
>
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