Creating directory in /home impossible...

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 26, 2011, at 18:35, Marko Käning wrote:

> it looks like it's an MacOSX peculiarity that I cannot create a directory in /home, since the latter is write protected.
> 
> Can I safely run "chmod u+w /home", so that I can create the directory in need, change its necessary permissions, and perhaps remove the write-flag afterwards?

Why do you want to do anything with /home on Mac OS X?