- Telling Your Server How To Share with Other Macs
- Now That the Servers Ready to Share, Create Some Share Points
- Three Share Points that Apple Assumes You Need (But You Probably Dont)
- Making Share Points Behave
- Automounting Share PointsIts About More than Just Connecting Them
- Giving Permissions to Share Points and Files Within Them
- When Owner, Group, and Everyone Arent Enough: Access Control Lists
- Theres No Place Like Home, Even If Its a Home Directory Nowhere Near Kansas
- Configuring Home Directories
- Using Quotas to Keep Users From Storing Too Much Stuff
- When Do You Actually Build Home for Your Users?
- Securing Home Directory Access
- Making Users Feel More At Home By Altering the Home Directory Template
- Saying Goodbye to Users and Deleting Their Home Directories
Saying Goodbye to Users and Deleting Their Home Directories
You should delete a home directory only after you have deleted a user account and are certain that no one needs access to files stored in the home directory. Once a user’s account is deleted, the home directory can be accessed or deleted only by the root user (either through the terminal or having logged in as root at the server using the login window). As root, you can also change the permission to a home directory so that other users can access the items it contains or copy them into another user’s home directory or to a folder on the server or within a share point.
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