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I've a user account in a remote machine. but it doesn't have a home directory in that machine. Is it possible to create a home directory without having root account details. If yes, how it can be done.
Joe
Posted 2010-09-14T03:42:45.287
Reputation: 135
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No matter what, you will still need a directory where you can store your stuff (i.e. write permission and it is not being cleaned-up like /tmp).
If you have such a directory setting the environment variable $HOME to that path will already make a lot of programs treat it like a home directory. You can set that variable with
$ export HOME=/some/dir/
You could put above line in a shell script you execute after each login. In that file you should also start your shell in login mode or make it source your .profile files.
Benjamin Bannier
Posted 2010-09-14T03:42:45.287
Reputation: 13 999
Do you have shell access? What does
echo $HOMEtell you? What do you get for the next to last field if you dogrep yourusername /etc/passwd? – Paused until further notice. – 2010-09-14T04:12:31.480$HOME is "/home/joe" and for grep, I got "joe:x:1013:1015::/home/joe:/bin/sh" – Joe – 2010-09-14T04:24:52.383
Do you have write permission in
/home/joe? If yes, you do already have a$HOMEdirectory. – Benjamin Bannier – 2010-09-14T12:54:03.433