config file and users directory

[Mark Worsdall]

In article <997357cf48.tom at compton.compton.nu>, Tom Hughes
<tom at compton.nu> writes
>In message <sET4bJA8yiu2Ew13 at worsdall.demon.co.uk>
>          Mark Worsdall <acorn at worsdall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I am interested in how other users are dealing with the users directory
>> and the config file.
>>
>> Do you store !RemoteNB on a write access network device, either access
>> or L4?
>
>You should probably know that it is my intention to switch to using
>!NewsDir.Users instead of !RemoteNB.Users at some point soon. The main
>reason things are the way they are is that it made it easier for in the
>days before I moved over to RemoteNB as my main mail/news backend.

I take it !NewsDir.Users will have to have RW access when in use by a
user or can it work as just R access?

>
>That is much less of an issue now both because I don't use any other
>backends now and because Messenger Pro uses subdirectories of Users
>to keep backend specified information separate.
>
>> Do you just save the user directory & config files on an access or L4
>> area and alter the system variables in !RemoteNB.!run?
>
>Note that one of those variables (the config one I think) doesn't
>actually work at the moment... I will probably change it to point
>to the directory containing the files so that the config files can
>be placed on a readonly filesystem to prevent unauthorised changes.
>
This is good except that means I will have to have to central areas, one
RW for !NewsDir and 1 R only for config or have I misunderstood?

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