> somebody wrote:
> > 'chown -R user /home/user' is something an administrator
> > should NOT do. It is an anti-security measure to give away
>
> How would you handle it then, if you move a user from one
> system to another? There is even the possibility that they
what's so hard in making a tarball & su -c 'tar xvpf tarball' user ? ;)
(that way you don't lose security - the user might lose some
functionality though... well you could lose some security if you have
some root-owned "dangerous" files there and so on... this's heading
towards a word known as 'offtopic' imho;)