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Why most programs simply refuse to work and/or refuse to store
configuration for user:

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~<$> echo $HOME
/root
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Because of that, you cannot use any programs that store their
configuration in home directory, because $HOME - /root is owned by root.

Lynx and all the programs look at this variable to figure out where
are the config files located - $HOME/.lynx or $HOME/.opera. They
expand the path to /root/.lynx or /root/.opera, and, because of that,
the applications get permission errors.

To fix this once and for all, one has to comment out the following line
in /etc/profile:

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export HOME=/root
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I suggest fixing this bug in BL3's multiple user implementation by adding
the following line to passwd.tgz's install/install.sh:

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( [ -f /etc/profile ] && sed -ie 's/^\(export HOME=\/root\)[ \t]*$/#\1/' 
/etc/profile )
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Karolis