Richard Moore wrote:
> 
> Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >
> > On 17 Nov 1999, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >
> > > Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar> writes:
> > >
> > > > > All of the above work for me with a read-only home directory, _given_
> > > > > _the_ _obvious_ _limitation_ of not being able to change something.
> > > >
> > > > Let's put things in perspective.
> > > >
> > > > News works... except you can't subscribe to groups, and the reader doesn't
> > > > remember what you have read, or your score/kill settings.
> > > >
> > > > Mail works... except you can't have an addressbook, save a message, change
> > > > any settings, or forward the mail automatically somewhere else.
> > >
> > > IMAP can be used for reading/writing mail/news without having
> > > write-access to your home directory. Addressbooks can be kept in LDAP
> > > or in a database.
> >
> > Since no KDE mailer supports either IMAP or LDAP addressbooks, this is
> > rather immaterial here. Let's just say KMail will not work.
> >
> > > > Netscape works... except you have no cache, no bookmarks, no proxy
> > > > settings.
> > >
> > > Cache is in /tmp, all settings is read from home directory..
> >
> > Netscape's cache is in ~/.netscape/cache, or isn't it?
> 
> You can move it where you like, that's just the default.
>

But who is going to move the user cache out of the home directory? Are
you going to create a cache dir for each user int /tmp ? I think not.
 
> Rich.
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