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Subject: Re: home directory overridden by root?
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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=E2=80=99s (non-writable) home. How can=
 I
> fix that? I can=E2=80=99t quite make out what=E2=80=99s wrong.
>=20
> 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
>=20
> ssh www
> [successful login]
> [paul@www /home/paul]$ whoami
> paul
> [paul@www /home/paul]$ id
> uid=3D1001(paul) gid=3D1001(paul) groups=3D1001(paul),0(wheel)
> [paul@www /home/paul]$ cd=20
> [paul@www ~]$ pwd
> /root
> [paul@www ~]$ sudo grep paul /etc/master.passwd=20
> Password:
> paul:[redacted]:1001:1001::0:0:paul:/home/paul:/usr/local/bin/bash
> [paul@www ~]$=20

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.