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I have Ubuntu server with ssh access. I've accidentally changed my home dir location to directory that doesn't exist. Now when I'm trying to login through ssh I saw following error:
Creating directory '/non/existing/directory'.
Unable to create and initialize directory '/non/existing/directory'.
How can I fix this
dzhioev
Posted 2013-02-28T00:50:24.060
Reputation: 111
What exactly did you do to change your home dir location? Do you have root access on that machine? – George Skoptsov – 2013-02-28T01:02:33.207
Do you have physical access to the machine? If all else fails, you could use single user mode. – cpast – 2013-02-28T01:11:21.450
@GeorgeSkoptsov, yes, I have sudo access. – dzhioev – 2013-02-28T05:05:59.513
Do you have a root password? Can you ssh as root into this machine? Does scp work, can you copy files onto the machine? – George Skoptsov – 2013-02-28T05:09:38.717
First suggestion is to change your home directory back to it's previous location. Otherwise, manually create the directory in question, including setting user and group ownership and permissions. – Yedric – 2013-08-22T14:36:59.940