[arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

[Chris Moline]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
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>                 On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
>                 > Applications have different means of finding out what the HOME directory
>                 > of a given user is. The HOME environment variable is just one of them.
>                 > Other popular ones include the function calls getpwuid() and getpwuid();
>                 > they basically read the data from /etc/passwd so your only way to work
>                 > around that and pretend having a different home directory would be to
>                 > override those calls with LD_PRELOAD...
>
>                 Thank you Gaetan,
>
>                 but this fails too:
>
>                 $ LD_PRELOAD=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1/ /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
>                 ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1/' from LD_PRELOAD
>                 cannot be preloaded: ignored.
>
>                 Regards,
>                 Ralf
>         -------- End of cancelled posting --------
>
> Assumed I would be able to do it, then I need to write new calls that
> will replace those calls?

How about sudoing to different users?