changing home directory
 

:confused: How do you LITERALLY change the home directory... I'm not talking about changing to another directory -- I mean setting a different directory as your home directory..


I pulled a stupid the other day and somehow changed it and of course, KDE flipped out, so I changed it to another directory that I made real fast to get me into the GUI, but now I want to change it back.. :scratch:

Thanks!

you would do

export HOME=/dir

and i assume i just drop into a shell session and issue that command?

I tried that -- the previous settings are over-riding that command.
Somewhere in KDE is where I set the home directory, but I can't recall where it is...

oh hell -- i found it -- i can change the home dir under users and groups in KDE.

Thanks anyway! :P

FYI, the direct way would be to edit /etc/passwd and change the obvious, or run usermod from a terminal