Re: $HOME not set?
Re: $HOME not set?
- Subject: Re: $HOME not set?
- From: "Paul J. Lucas" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:20:05 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Greg Herlihy wrote:
> Only those accounts that have been set up for a person will have a home
> directory.
It seems I have to be painfully specific. (Sigh.) I'm writing
a Mac OS X application using Carbon/Cocoa that is launched by a
person, typically by double-clicking its icon.
> All other accounts, such as windowserver, postfix, nobody, and root have no
> home directory.
1. I'm interested only in user accounts.
2. All users always have a home directory including all the ones
you listed:
$ echo ~windowserver ~postfix ~nobody ~root
/var/empty /var/spool/postfix /var/empty /var/root
Anyway, my question wasn't whether a given user has a home
directory since all users have a home directory. Again, my
question was whether, for a normal human being user, $HOME can
ever be not set. $HOME being unset has nothing to do with
whether the user has a home directory.
- Paul
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