how do you change a users home directory

[Anonymous]

I renamed my home directory and now when I log in it puts me in "/". How do I change the home directory for this user to reflect the name change?

 

[Anonymous]

Nevermind, I answered my own question. I just had to look in the /etc/passwd file.

 

[LateNiteTV]

did you edit /etc/passwd directly? u shouldnt ever do that.
instead, use

chsh [I]user[/I]

and edit it from there.

 

[Anonymous]

I tried changing the directory within /etc/passwd to be the new directory I want "/home/mickey.harvey" but bash still thinks my home directory is "/home/Mickey Harvey"

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks latenight that worked.

 

[SirDice]

As LateNightTV said, do NOT edit /etc/passwd directly. Never, ever.. Most of the time it'll work but someday you'll end up with a nuked passwd file.

Use vipw, chsh or the pw commands.

 

[DutchDaemon]

And if you really really have to, edit /etc/master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd to (re)create /etc/passwd.