On 2 Mar 2007, at 22:54, Alan Pope wrote: > Well of course the blindingly obvious answer is to have separate /home > directories. > > You could do that one one of the installs (the newer one?) by > temporarily by editing the /etc/fstab and commenting out the line > referring to /home. Do this in single user/recovery mode, then make > sure > it isn't currently mounted (umount /home) and make a home directory > (mkdir /home) and make a home directory for your user (mkdir /home/ > alan) > then change ownership of it (chown alan:alan /home/alan) > > Of course replacing all occurrences of "alan" with your user name. > > This would (in one install) give you a clean home directory. > > Cheers, > Al.
Alternatively, you could give the two accounts separate home directories on the same partition. From the usermod man page: > -d, --home HOME_DIR > The user’s new login directory. If the -m option is given > the > contents of the current home directory will be moved to > the new home > directory, which is created if it does not already exist. Remember, the home directory name doesn't *have* to be the same as the login name. -- Adam McMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
