changing home directory

netboy_541 · 09-09-2003, 09:52 PM

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..

Thanks!

wr3ck3d · 09-09-2003, 10:31 PM

you would do

export HOME=/dir

netboy_541 · 09-10-2003, 12:28 AM

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

netboy_541 · 09-10-2003, 12:59 AM

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...

netboy_541 · 09-10-2003, 01:21 AM

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

Thanks anyway! :P

acid_kewpie · 09-10-2003, 04:09 AM

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