Changing home directory

[Joachim Backes]

Mattia Gandolfi wrote:
> arora.himanshu at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>            I want to change my home directory from /home/me to /tmp/me 
>> without getting root involved. It also means that whether I do ssh or 
>> scp or ftp or telnet it should see my home directory as /tmp/me. Any 
>> suggestions ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> 
> usermod -dm /tmp/me <your_username>

You are sure? The manpage says:

CAVEATS
        usermod will not allow you to change the name of a user who is logged in.

How to do it without logging in (as root or user)?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mattia
> 


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