I'm trying to change the home directory to a different folder and my OS is not letting me do that. In Ubuntu I try to edit the useradd file but I can't figure out any way to save my changes that I made. Does anyone know how to do this?
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usermod -d /path/to/new/directory username
Make sure your have created the new directory first with the mkdir command. Then login as yourself again, the directory is set during login.
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sudo usermod -d /path/to/new/home -m username
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I get a "user is currently used by process 2212" error. I have not been able to figure out what that process is. – Christian Kramer Feb 21 '15 at 01:42
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reboot, try sudo su and try above command – TEDDY Feb 23 '15 at 09:09