Re: Changing home directory

arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
I want to change my home directory from /home/me to /tmp/me without getting root involved. It also means that whether I do ssh or scp or ftp or telnet it should see my home directory as /tmp/me. Any suggestions ?

Thanks,


usermod -dm /tmp/me <your_username>

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