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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:39:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
To:        gentile@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Elizabeth J Gentile)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Changing Home Dir
Message-ID:  <199610180139.SAA23646@seagull.rtd.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610172312.TAA15600@gradine.cis.upenn.edu> from "Elizabeth J Gentile" at Oct 17, 96 07:12:50 pm

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> I initially set up a user's home dir in /home/username.  i decided to 
> change it to /usr/home/username.  i set all the permissions correctly, i 
> copied over all the initialization files, i changed the home dir in 
> /etc/passwd and in /etc/master.passwd.  when the user logs in, the 
> initial working dir is still /home/username.  where else is the home dir 
> set that i haven't modified yet?

Did you rebuild the password database?  :>   Whenever you have to tweek
/etc/passwd, do it using vipw!  Otherwise you're liable to forget
a step or two... 

--don



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