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Allanm
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For sometime now, I am unable to do -
cd ~homedir
but
cd /homedir works...
Can you suggest some pointers as to how I can troubleshoot or fix this?
Thanks,
Allan.
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Allanm
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Nov 2, 2009 23:47:25 GMT
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Also sudo bash takes a very long time to come back to the password prompt... |
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Steven Schweda
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Nov 3, 2009 00:00:04 GMT
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> cd ~homedir
If you want "/homedir", then say "/homedir".
The "~user_name" notation is used with a user
name. That path to that user's home
directory is obtained from the "passwd" data
base ("/etc/passwd", or wherever). Unless
there's a user name of "homedir", "~homedir"
makes no sense.
What is the user name here?
Where is that user's home directory? |
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Allanm
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Nov 3, 2009 00:05:41 GMT
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Sorry I meant cd ~user-home-dir, cd /user-home-dir works.
Also sudo bash is very slow to respond... |
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Steven Schweda
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Nov 3, 2009 03:50:14 GMT
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> Sorry I meant cd ~user-home-dir,
> cd /user-home-dir works.
So, does that mean that you're happy, or is
there still a problem/question there?
> Also sudo bash is very slow to respond...
A different thread with "sudo" in the Subject
might get more attention from people who know
more about sudo than I. |
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Goran Koruga
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Nov 3, 2009 06:10:40 GMT
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Hi.
Did you check which is the homedir set for your user?
getent passwd <username>
Next to last field is homedir.
Regards,
Goran |
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Kapil Jha
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Nov 3, 2009 11:48:24 GMT
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its ~user_id
if your user id existe and it has home dir.
have you seen some other problem or some specific thing when you not able to do this.
BR,
Kapil+ |
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Matti Kurkela
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Nov 3, 2009 12:39:18 GMT
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When you execute "cd ~foo", the shell checks the home directory location of user "foo" from the user database (usually /etc/passwd, but can be NIS or LDAP too if configured) and then moves to that directory.
If the user "foo" has his home directory set as /home/bar, the command "cd ~foo" moves to /home/bar.
Since you say your "cd /homedir" works, it is probably not a home directory permission problem.
Maybe the user cannot look up the home directory location for some reason?
What are the permissions of /, /etc and /etc/passwd?
Please run:
ls -ld / /etc /etc/passwd
The response should be something like this. Note the permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2009-10-20 13:30 /
drwxr-xr-x 162 root root 16384 2009-11-03 12:57 /etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1854 2009-10-06 15:18 /etc/passwd
MK |
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Dirk Dierickx
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Nov 5, 2009 08:48:28 GMT
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normally 'cd ~' will take you to your own home dir. 'cd ~userhomedir' will not work because that would translate to something like /home/user/user, which probably doesn't exist.
if you want to do 'cd ~otheruserhomedir', i'm not aware this is possible. afaik ~ always points to your own home dir and thus you should address others home dirs always as a full path. |
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Steven Schweda
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Nov 5, 2009 15:13:05 GMT
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> [...] 'cd ~userhomedir' will not work
> because [...]
For a valid explanation of what this means,
see Matti Kurkela's response.
> [...] i'm not aware [...]
Try it?
debi# cd ~
debi# pwd
/root
debi# cd ~ftp
debi# pwd
/home/ftp
debi# grep '^ftp:' /etc/passwd
ftp:x:110:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false
Or read about it. "man <your_shell>" should
provide the details. |
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Dirk Dierickx
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Nov 6, 2009 08:20:24 GMT
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nice, didn't know about that one yet! is there anything unix can't do? :) |
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