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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:55:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Elizabeth J Gentile <gentile@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Changing Home Dir
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961017195518.5360F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610172312.TAA15600@gradine.cis.upenn.edu>

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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Elizabeth J Gentile wrote:

> 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?

Note that in a default FreeBSD setup /home is symlinked to /usr/home.

Just a FYI...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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