How to change the root directory for a Linux user?

You can use the usermod command to change the default home directory for a user. usermod -d /path/to/dir username. What this command does is edit the file /etc/ ...

2016年8月22日 — Change username and home directory name · It should work. You might also want to chown -R new_username:new_groupname /home/new_username to ...

2013年12月27日 — usermod is the command to edit an existing user. -d (abbreviation for --home ) will change the user's home directory. Change the user's home ...

2023年5月26日 — You can do this by checking the `/etc/passwd` file, which contains user details. The command ` grep 'username' /etc/passwd ` (replace 'username' ...

2024年3月18日 — In this tutorial, we're going to see how to change the default home directory of a user on Linux. By default, it's /home/username}.

2023年11月1日 — There are two methods you can use to change a user's default home directory on a Linux system: using the “usermod” command or editing the “/etc/ ...

2016年2月4日 — use usermod -d /new/home joe to change home dir for subsequent session. Once session is run, you must do two things: edit $HOME to change home ...

2010年10月5日 — It sounds like you want to change the HOME dir, not the root dir. Root will always be / or /root. usermod -d /path/to/new/homedir/ username.

2020年8月28日 — To change the user's home directory we once again use the usermod command. However, this time we need to perform to actions: change the home ...