On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:35:26PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> if the system doesn't have home directories but does have > >> /usr/local you can put things in there (just check to make > >> sure first that you aren't clobbering someone else's directories > >> or files :) ). > > > > I don't that that's typically writable to for any odd user. > > i'm assuming the person can get that changed if desired > or change it themselves. if not, then it would be a > rather strange situation IMO, to not have a home directory > and to also not have some other place to put things.
On a Linux system the only other place that should, by default, offer writable disk space is /tmp/ , I guess. Or else /media/$USER/a-user-mounted-removable-media/ > at the moment i'm assuming that recent Mac's should > be posix and have a $HOME and allow for $HOME/.local/share > and $HOME/.config Surely they should. Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
