NetInfo (was Re: Mac Mini)

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Thursday, 20 January 2005 06.35, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> Putting home directories in odd places is very easy in OSX: Just use the
> NetInfo Manager in your Utilities folder to change the "home" property of
> the user in question. Of course, prior to making this change, you need to
> COPY the existing home directory to the new location (the canonical way to
> do so would be to use "ditto -rsrc"). After you log out and log back in,
> you may delete the old home directory. Other people have done this on OSX,
> and I have done it on YDL. I have also used this same method under OSX to
> change my login shell from tcsh to bash, and to set up NFS service.

Thanks, I'll try that - didn't think to use netinfo. This one really would 
need a good manual!

Thierry

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