Home directories of local users. There is a five-tier
structure to the directories:
[domain]/[firstletter]/[secondletter]/[thirdletter]/[userid]. For example,
a user fredflint at MSU would have his information located in
-lonUsers/msu/f/r/e/fredflint.Within this directory there are a variety
-of files which govern the scope of what a user can do within the LON-CAPA
+lonUsers/msu/f/r/e/fredflint.
Within this directory there are
+a variety of files which govern the scope of what a user can do within the LON-CAPA
system. A passwd file determines the type of authentication mechanism to use.
There is also are files such as roles.hist (and its database compilation,
roles.db) which specify the roles and privileges for a user in the
LON-CAPA system.
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