Solved /home not found

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UndisBum

I have just finished installing a new image of FreeBSD, and have created the user "person". When I am logged into person, I can use the command:
echo $HOME

and it will display "/home/person". However, no one can create files there. It lets me use:
cd $HOME and cd ~

But it insists that /home is not a file or a directory. My first thought was to use chmod 755 /home however, /home isn't recognized by root either.

:EDIT: Actually, I was wrong. When logged into person, typing cd $HOME results in an error message stating:

Code: 
cd: /home/person: No such file or directory
 
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UndisBum said:
but it insists that /home is not a file or a directory.
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When doing a standard install of FreeBSD, /home is a symlink to /usr/home. ls -l / | grep home should show that to be the case:
Code: 
[CMD=%]ls -l / | grep home[/CMD]
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel        8 Jun 11  2015 home -> usr/home
 
I ran ls -l / | grep home and can confirm that my output matches yours.

inside /usr, there is no directory "home". I'm guessing my /usr/home does not exist. Am I correct in this analysis? Is there a way to fix this?

I mean, would making the directory using root work or do I need to take special steps to recreate the home directory for person correctly?
 
If the output is the same as mine, the /home symlink and /usr/home directories do exist. Run pw user show [B]<username>[/B] as the user in question replacing <username> with the user's name and post the output.
 
Odd, did you by chance accidentally delete the user's home directory? You should be able to create/change a user's home directory with the pw(1) command.
pw usermod cody -d /home/cody -m
 
Thanks!!! That command fixed my issue. I remember what happened. I used pw mod instead of passwd by accident. Thanks again!
 
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