Hello Tomas, Tomas Rippl wrote on Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 10:12:11AM +0100:
> I tried to change the user2's home directory from /home/user2 > to /home/user2/MyWD. Why would you do something like that? Not sure whether is dangerous, but it doesn't feel useful either. I never heard of anybody doing something like that. > I did this by altering the sixth field of /etc/ > passwd of this user's record. However, it did not work (user2 still > ends up in /home/user2 after login or when I issue su -l user2 while > being logged in as user1. I also searched all the dot files in user2's > home directory for '$HOME' but found no other place where it is set. > And being logged in as user2, when I issue: > HOME=/home/user2/MyWD > export HOME > cd > I really end up /home/user2/MyWD. > What am I missing? $ man master.passwd pwd_mkdb vipw Editing automatically generated files rarely ends well. Yours, Ingo
