Does Leopard Support Users Directory On Another Drive?

On my Tiger based Mac today, I have the OS and Applications on one drive, and all my data (User Directory) on another. I created this set up using Terminal and NetInfo Manager to copy the User Directory and create a symbolic link.
I'm wondering if I can still follow this same procedure with Leopard? Here's a link that describes the procedure.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007041217125440

Yep,
i found a tricky way:
1. Open terminal.
2. Login as admin and get root rights and enter the admin password
sudo su
3. Use the "directory service command line utility"
dscl
4. Type ls for an overview and change to your user directory (myUserName is an example)
cd /Local/Default/Users/myUserName
5. Take an overview about the keys with cat
cat
6. And look to the key NFSHomeDirectory. This is the key of your home path
7. Change the path (to another partition or drive e.g.) with
change /Local/Default/Users/myUserName NFSHomeDirectory /Users/myUserName /Volumes/Data/home/myUserName
8. Exit dscl with
q
9. Copy files and directories to the new location
ditto -rsrcFork -V /Users/myUserName /Volumes/Data/home/myUserName
10. Exit terminal
Thats all

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