How to Change Home Directory of a User in AlmaLinux - YouTube Script

Introduction (30 seconds)

Hello everyone. Welcome to my channel! Today, I will show you how to change the home directory of a user in AlmaLinux.

Changing the Home Directory

To change the home directory of a user, you can use the usermod command followed by the -d option. For example, we want to change “john”’s home directory.

Let’s check the current home directory of “john” first:

getent passwd john

The output will look something like this:

john:x:1001:1001::/home/john:/bin/bash

Now, let’s change the home directory of “john” to /home/john_doe:

sudo usermod -d /home/john_doe john
getent passwd john

This command changed the home directory of “john” to /home/john_doe.

Now we want to reverse this change and set the home directory back to /home/john:

sudo usermod -d /home/john john
getent passwd john

This command changed the home directory of “john” back to /home/john.

Conclusion (30 seconds)

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