Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Misuse of the system folder... Message-ID: <1991Apr17.163433.28816@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 17 Apr 91 16:34:33 GMT References: <1991Apr10.093946.22779@allgfx.agi.oz> <622@cronos.metaphor.com> <1991Apr16.092448.8916@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Sender: news@neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 8 Another problem I run into: if more than one person uses the same machine (i.e., boots from the same hard disk), preferences etc. become impossible to manage. Wouldn't it be possible to have some personal preferences strategy (e.g., based on the person's AppleShare id, alias the preferences folder to a different real folder)? -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu