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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:55:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Elizabeth J Gentile <gentile@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
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Subject: Re: Changing Home Dir
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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