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...uite a while now, and for the matter of documentation I'd like to resolve the acronym LOESS. Unfortunately there's no explanation in the help file, and I didn't get anything convincing from google either. I know that the predecessor LOWESS stands for "Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing". But what does LOESS stand for, specifically? "Locally Weighted Exponential Scatterplot Smoothing"? As far as I understand LOESS is still a local polynomial regression, so that would probably make no sense. Any help appreciated! Thanks in advance, Peter

Hi, Thank you for replying. User home directory creation is working without the need to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session The logon script I mentioned here is a in-house script to handle directory mounting for file server access, and create shortcut on the account desktop for different logins. On my Linux machines, currently all is done manually by local user account creation and by adding the