I have an iMac running Mac OS X 10.5.6, running on my local network with a fixed IP 192.168.0.98.
On this machine I have two users: "john" who has the root privileges and "mary" who is a regular user.
When John executes:
ssh mary@localhost
he gets asked three times...
Thanks for the hint about the link:
http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/1821/Fix--home-directory-after-installing-Leopard
I did google but maybe I did not use the right search words :-(. Notice that I did not refute your answer; I would just like to know what this directory is for!
Sorry but this is a somewhat bureaucratic answer. So far I did not see a technical explanation for the existence of this strange empty directory "/home" which cannot be modified even by the 'root'. It did not exist under Mac OS 10.4 (at least not under the one running on PowerPC). What is its...
Yes that's obvious but it does not solve the problem. This difference between Mac OS and usual Linux/Unix installations makes things more complicated for users of multiple machines and operating systems. In case of Windows this would be a minor issue because it is so different to start with...
I was using until recently a PowerPC running Mac OS X 10.4.11. Since I maintain my directories synchronized all the time between Linux running on another machine and this PowerPC, I created a link:
/home -> /Users
so that all my scrpits and links (like /home/....) would work properly...