[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] busybox, sh and $HOME

[From: young dave]

Really?
I have no N800, maybe it's diffrent from 770.

 But I think even if you can change home to other directory, the child
directorys and  files under /home/user are needed by many
applications.

Regards
dave
2007/2/9, william maddler <news at maddler.net>:
> Tryed that already, but nothing. sh/xterm keeps $HOME=/home/user
>
> I really have no idea... and looks like it doesn't look at .profile
>
> damn
>
> young dave wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I guess you need reboot the device.
> >
> > under our N770's osso-xterm ,
> > 1. sudo gainroot
> > 2. mkdir /media/mmc1/user
> > 3. usermod -d /media/mmc1/user user
> > 4. reboot
> >
> > Regards
> > dave
> >
> > Then the user home directory changed to /media/mmc1/user.
> >
> > 2007/2/9, william maddler <news at maddler.net>:
> >> Ok, maybe it's me, but this thing is driving me nut!
> >> I have in my /etc/passwd:
> >>
> >> user:XXXXXXXXXXXX:29999:29999::/media/mmc3/user:/bin/sh
> >>
> >> which is supposed to make /media/mmc3/user the home for user. And unless
> >> I'me a complete demented, that should be ok.
> >>
> >> Now, if I ssh from outside and do
> >>
> >> echo $HOME
> >>
> >> I get the correct response: /media/mmc3/user
> >>
> >> but if I try from inside Xterm on  N800 the result is...
> >>
> >> /home/user
> >>
> >> !!!
> >>
> >> Am I wrong, is it normal?!
> >>
> >> DOH!
> >>
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