Creating directory in /home impossible...

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 27, 2011, at 11:13, Marko Käning wrote:

>> Why do you want to do anything with /home on Mac OS X?
> For debugging a KDE application originating from Linux I need to create a user directory in there.
> 
> How to do this properly under MacOSX now?

I don't know. I'm not even sure why Mac OS X has a /home directory, since it does not use it. Perhaps it's there for odd Linux / UNIX programs that test for the existence of /home to decide whether they're running on Linux / UNIX vs. Windows.

Perhaps this tip will help you:

http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/11929/Restoring-the--home-directory-in-Snow-Leopard