11-29-2009
Unless the users home directory is group owned by a group you are also in and is group readable and accessible or the user's home directory is world readable you won't be able to do this as yourself, to test try cd'ing into the user's home directory and cat'ing say .profile, .kshrc, .bashrc or .cshrc.
You could do it as root as long as the home directory is not NFS mounted and the NFS server has not given your NFS client root access.
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