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I'll make a wild guess and say that you have a /home directory on your root (/) partition and found it is filling up.
If you have another partition, you can mount it as home.
Otherwise, I think that what usermod -d does is to modify your home directory field in /etc/passwd. You may still need to move your home directory contents there. (However, I'm not sure, and I'm not going to test it on my system.) You might try moving your entire home directory (as root) and use the usermod command.
If every user has a directory in /home, you could do something like this:
Code:
for user in /home/*; do
mv $user /local/
usermod -d /local/$user
done
The HOWTO file that comes with shadow-4.0.3 gives the file /etc/default/useradd for these settings. Editing that file on a Slackware 11.0 system and then running useradd -D shows it using the settings. So for systems like Slackware that use the standard shadow package, /etc/default/useradd is the file to modify so that new (not existing) users get the updated settings.
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