On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 07:01 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I am attempting to move a user's home directory from /home to /home2.
> I copied all files (?) from /home/user to /home2/user.
> Changed /etc/passwd for user to point to /home2/user.
>
> I tested the setup by opening a terminal and doing an su user & was
> prompted for the password for user and logged on, no problems. The pwd
> command did indeed show the correct new directory (/home2/user)
>
> Rebooted my system and logged in as user with the GUI, All ok except I
> was still pointing to /home/user NOT /home2/user!
>
> What did I do wrong????

Nothing that I can determine, but check if $HOME is set to /home2/user.
If it is not, then somewhere the environment variable got set explicitly
in a startup script (e.g. .bashrc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile). Also
recheck the home directory field in /etc/passwd.
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