Change a users Home Directory

I'm on CENTOS and trying to change an existing user's home directory. I tried usermod, but says that command is bad. Any other way?

Nathan Riley

Asked: 2011-03-07

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farzanjCommented: 2011-03-07

usermod -d /home/userid userid

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Nathan RileyFounderAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

I did that, but got this error bash: usermod: command not found. Do I need to do it from a certain location?

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farzanjCommented: 2011-03-07

Other easy way is to edit the /etc/passwd file

Manually change the user and change its home directory

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brb6708Commented: 2011-03-07

Easy: As root edit /etc/passwd using texteditor and modify Field No 6.
Fields are separated by colon (:)
Entry loks like
username:x:uid:gid:Comment:/home/username:/bin/bash

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farzanjCommented: 2011-03-07

You have to the root user to do so or you have to use sudo

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Nathan RileyFounderAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

heh, tried that before and had some major issues after the edit, would like to do using usermod, I am logged in as root, but still getting the error: error bash: usermod: command not found