How to specify home directory when creating a user in linux?

Question

I want to specify the home directory when creating a user, currently i'm using centos 6.7

Is it possible?

Please learn how to find out this stuff yourself. `man` pages exist, including `man useradd`. — Sven, Oct 26 '15 at 02:47

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '15 at 02:55

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You can do this to simply add a user:

useradd -m -d /home/newuser newuser

Or this to add a user by asking you some questions

adduser --home /home/newuser2 newuser2

answered Oct 26 '15 at 02:55

Ryan Babchishin

FYI, those commands were tested on Ubuntu. – Ryan Babchishin Oct 26 '15 at 06:06

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