A home directory (or "home folder" on Windows and Mac OSes) is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system.
Questions tagged [home-directory]
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How can I "fix" a user that has no home dir but is logged in
I created postgres using the useradd command without thinking twice about it. I've already got postgres installed and running. I'm unable to add a home directory to postgres because the user is currently logged in.
Can I somehow log the postgres…
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Bulk change of ownership
I recently migrated a server to another machine in our rack. They ownership/permissions didn't transfer when I moved /home from machine1 to /home on machine2 (both Ubuntu machines)
The user accounts successfully transfered and are all there.
I was…
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Setting up ProFTPd with default home directory based on username
I am setting up ProFTPd with MySQL authentication. It works so far, I can connect. However, I want to set the SQLDefaultHomedir directive so that I don't have to include it in my database. I want to include as part of the directive the username used…
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Move /home to new partition on CentOS
I have a new partition which is called /dev/DTX and I would like to move /home to it. /home contains all users websites. Is there any way to do it via SSH?
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Windows 2008 R2 not all folders showing in user home folder after migration
During our migration process from SBS2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2, I copied the user home directories across to their new location on the Windows 2008 R2 server.
I have a specific problem with one of the users.
She can access her files and…
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Debian home directory permissions get resetted
On Debian Squeeze once a day the home directory permissions of one specific user get resetted to chmod 700 and chown root:root. Every day I have to set the permissions manually to login properly. Anyone got an idea where this comes from?
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VSFTPD (CentOS 5)
I can create (mkdir) folder & upload (put) file into "/home/my_ftp_folder" thru terminal, but I don't know why I can't remove folder, remove file I uploaded.
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Home directory filling up on ubuntu
I have a dedicated ubuntu server that hosts a rails web app. It has 2.9TB free in the home directory, which is where I host the app (for convenience sake). We host video so the home directory was filling up, so I deleted everything that was…
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How to change mount point for /home
I am using CentOS 5.8 x64bit
I have all my users directories in the /home/ directory, the drive which CentOS is installed along with /home is on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
And its getting full I have 12% left. I predict that it will be full…
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Empty homedir name when SSHing to localhost
I am trying to start a system (Hadoop, but that should not matter much for this question), and need to be able to ssh to localhost. I do this on windows with cygwin. The cygwin SSHD service is running, and ssh localhost works (as does ssh…
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Upstart: running app from home folder
I've created two user accounts for two applications: mongod and node.js. Both of these store their data in their home folder. This keeps data "sandboxed" and prevents them from needing to be in the sudoers / admin file.
However, I have read that the…
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How long does it take to modify the permissions of /home/?
So I am using Transmit.app for my SFTP client and I changed permissions in /home/ and pressed the "Apply to Enclosed..." option as well. So essentially it is applying the desired permission to every single thing in /home/. The size of the directory…
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How to change local user home folder on Windows 2000 and above
I was using a local account on a Windows 7 desktop that is not connected to any Active Directory.
After a while it was required to rename the local account.
Renaming the account was simple using Local users and groups management tool.
After renaming…
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Apache doesn't serve home dir
I want to serve a home dir from apache but it's going to a permission denied error.
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 with Apache2. The error in the log file is:
[Tue Jun 21 15:55:34 2011] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /home/pedro/.htaccess…
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What permissions needed to map a drive in Win7 vs. XP?
We are transitioning from WinXP workstations to Win7.
Our users have home directories set up as drive letter G:, assigned via Active Directory. The server is Windows Server 2008.
We have a user that was using a WinXP laptop. She could get into her…
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