Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:13:07 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home directory overridden by root? Message-ID: <20170227111307.5441830c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <B9C3096B-970E-468D-9316-9E650BAEC448@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:22:23 -0800 Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote: > For some reason my home directory reverts to/is confused with /root. I > login, get dropped at home, but cd will take me to /root and any > command I run assumes I am in root’s (non-writable) home. How can I > fix that? I can’t quite make out what’s wrong. > > FreeBSD www 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #0 r312644: Sun Jan 22 > 11:36:16 PST 2017 root@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE i386 > > ssh www > [successful login] > [paul@www /home/paul]$ whoami > paul > [paul@www /home/paul]$ id > uid=1001(paul) gid=1001(paul) groups=1001(paul),0(wheel) > [paul@www /home/paul]$ cd > [paul@www ~]$ pwd > /root > [paul@www ~]$ sudo grep paul /etc/master.passwd > Password: > paul:[redacted]:1001:1001::0:0:paul:/home/paul:/usr/local/bin/bash > [paul@www ~]$ echo $HOME If that's not correct check if some login script sets that variable and remove that. Its value should be correct by default.home | help
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