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UCS 2.4 - Univention

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9.6 Home directories<br />

computer on which the font server is operated must be entered for . 7100 is usually selected<br />

when entering the port as this is the standard setting for the font server. For example, if a font<br />

server is operated on port 7100 of the master.ucs.test computer, the variable can be set to the following<br />

value:<br />

xorg/fonts/server=tcp/master.ucs.local:7100<br />

9.6 Home directories<br />

Each user is allocated his own home directory. This directory is usually stored under /home/ and<br />

contains amongst other things all program settings which have been changed by the user. As each user<br />

has write permission for his home directory, this is normally also the place where his personal documents<br />

can be saved.<br />

There are a number of different descriptions for a user’s home directory:<br />

• home directory<br />

• /home/<br />

• $HOME<br />

• ~<br />

• home<br />

If an alternate path than /home/ is required for the home directory, this can be entered in the<br />

<strong>Univention</strong> Directory Manager in the user object under UNIX home directory. This is, however, only<br />

required and necessary in exceptional cases. The login shell to be used, by default /bin/bash, can also<br />

be amended or deleted here.<br />

9.6.1 Creation of new home directories<br />

The home directories of new users do not need to be created manually. As soon as a user logs on, each<br />

<strong>UCS</strong> system automatically checks whether a home directory already exists for this user. If this is not the<br />

case, a home directory is created.<br />

When creating a new home directory, the home directory configured for the user is created on the system<br />

on which the log-in occurs. The univention-skel mechanism then creates specific, predefined files and<br />

directories in this directory.<br />

9.6.2 Modifying the default content of home directories<br />

When creating a new home directory, univention-skel copies the contents of /etc/univention/skel/<br />

into this home directory and changes the owner and file groups over to the newly created user. Sub folders<br />

are created in the home directories as relative paths.<br />

For already existing user directories, changes to the contents of /etc/univention/skel/ have the<br />

following consequences:<br />

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