How to set root user under home directory ?

mohgam · 01-12-2012, 07:05 AM

I am new to this and so would appreciate being told in plain English what I need to do or where I need to start.

I notice that the root user can't be seen under home directory , i dont know why ?

and how could I get it seen under home directory ???

and there is another user cant be seen under home directory , how could I set it under home??

corp769 · 01-12-2012, 07:22 AM

Do you mean that you are looking for the home directory of root? Being root, it is located in /root.

Janus_Hyperion · 01-12-2012, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mohgam

I notice that the root user can't be seen under home directory , i dont know why ?

and how could I get it seen under home directory ???

The root will not have a directory under /home. /home is only for users other than root. As far as I know, there is no way to make the root have a directory under /home.

If you are looking for root directory, it is /root

mohgam · 01-12-2012, 07:35 AM

corp769 , thanx for reply

when i create a new user, i can see it under the directory "home" .

but there is some users ("root" user ," openerp " user )I cant see them under the directory "home" , and I need to be there.

corp769 · 01-12-2012, 07:43 AM

Root is not meant to be under /home, period. And what is the openerp user for? If it is for a service or another program, then that's why it's not there; It is not meant to be used to log into.

padawan · 01-12-2012, 07:48 AM

Am I correct in thinking that operp is an installed software related to openerp.com ? If so then this particular user seems to be a user installed by software to delegate permissions with. It's very common for software installed users to not have their own home folders. Since they aren't users like myself and you, they don't need their own desktop, and music folder and other things associated with a regular user, so they don't get one.

If the openerp user is the actual one that you are having issues with, maybe explaining why you need access to that users home entry might shed light on a better solution. There are ways to re-make that user, but those will likely reset some properties associated with that user which were set by the software. Off hand, I'm not sure what ones, that being said, I don't recommend that route.

Does that seem to make sense?

-padawan

mohgam · 01-12-2012, 07:49 AM

nonamedotc ,corp769

thanx for reply ,

it's clear now
thanx

deep27ak · 01-12-2012, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mohgam

I am new to this and so would appreciate being told in plain English what I need to do or where I need to start.

I notice that the root user can't be seen under home directory , i dont know why ?

and how could I get it seen under home directory ???

and there is another user cant be seen under home directory , how could I set it under home??

By default root gets it home directory in root/

and for any other user you created, it gets its home directory inside

Code:

/home/

where you can see the name of the directory by the name of user

for eg

Code:

#cd /home
#ls
user1  user2  user3  <---where each directory indicates about home directory for each user as per the name of directory

and if you want to define any other directoy as home to any existing user then

Code:

#usermod -d /new/path/to/dir  username

while adding user if you want to specifiy different home directory

Code:

#useradd -d /new/path/to/dir  username