Joachim Backes wrote:
Mattia Gandolfi wrote:
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>
You are sure? The manpage says:
CAVEATS
usermod will not allow you to change the name of a user who is
logged in.
How to do it without logging in (as root or user)?
it can only be done logging in as root (or as a user belonging to root
group).
It can't be done logging is as the user itself (as the manpage correctly
says), or as another user (which obviously would not have the permission
to do so).
I see no way to do it without logging in at all... you could modify
/etc/passwd and "push" it to the machine using wathever you want (scp
for example), but this means logging in anyway)
Cheers
Mattia
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