[auton-users] Quick general Linux question

[Dan Pelleg]

Andrew W. Moore writes:
 > How do I change my home directory? On a new machine, facilities has given
 > me an afs home directory. I want to make it a local disk home
 > directory. I do have su access. What should I do?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 >   Andrew

su

setenv EDITOR=emacs
vipw (recommended)
or

vi/emacs /etc/passwd (less recommended but will probably work)

(edit the line with awm in it: where it says /afs/cs/user/home/awm
put something like /home/awm

quit editor
- if you used vipw above, then you don't want to edit the shadow file
)

df
 - figure out where's a nice and big partition to put the home under, say
/usr0

 mkdir /usr0/awm
 chown awm.users /usr0/awm
 chmod 755 /usr0/awm
 mkdir /home
 ln -s /usr0/awm /home
 passwd -l awm  (this step only if you want awm to have a local,
kerberos-unaware password)

 - copy stuff into /home/awm
  (.login, .cshrc, and so on - if you do this a lot, setting up
   a tarfile with all of these files proves useful. I actually have
   my own CVS repo for all of this stuff, which makes updating them
   and keeping them in sync across machines simpler. Well, for some
   value of "simple" at least).

 - chown -R awm.users /usr0/awm

 - I usually set up "afs-home" as a symlink to /afs/cs/usr/home/awm

 - test: best done by opening a new window to login as awm, so if it
doesn't work you can still correct things in your still-open root window.