Wednesday, 12 September 2012
By default, when we create or add users to Linux System, user’s default home directory is created to /home. To change default directory to /opt/, we need to change few settings as mentioned below: | |||||||||
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| STEP 1: Open /etc/default/useradd | |||||||||
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| # nano /etc/default/useradd | |||||||||
| The default home directory defined by HOME variable, find line that read as follows: | |||||||||
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| HOME=/home replace to HOME=/opt/ | |||||||||
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| Save and close the file. Now you can add user using regular useradd command: | |||||||||
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| # useradd uddika | |||||||||
| # passwd -d uddika | |||||||||
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| Verify user information: | |||||||||
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| # finger uddika | |||||||||
| Output: | |||||||||
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