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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list