$HOME variable over SSH - Printable Version

$HOME variable over SSH - Printable Version

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$HOME variable over SSH - ElusivePine - 06-26-2020

Hello everone,

I just booted postmarketOS from my SD card and logged into it over SSH. I noticed that

Code:
cd ~

takes me to /root and not to /home/user. Is there a reason for that and can it be changed? I tried

Code:
usermod -d /home/user user

but it only said

Code:
usermod: no changes

RE: $HOME variable over SSH - Dendrocalamus64 - 06-26-2020

What user are you logged in as?
$ whoami

What shell are you running?
$ ps

What does /etc/passwd list as user's home directory? (Second-to-last field)

My first guess is you're getting logged in as root since nobody else should have /root set as their home directory.

RE: $HOME variable over SSH - PureTryOut - 06-28-2020

(06-26-2020, 02:45 PM)Dendrocalamus64 Wrote: My first guess is you're getting logged in as root since nobody else should have /root set as their home directory.

Sounds like this is it really. `cd ~` definitely brings me to my home directory and the only real explanation would be executing that command as root.

RE: $HOME variable over SSH - ElusivePine - 07-16-2020

Thank you for your replies. I don't remember which user it was but have not had an issue with it anymore. Thank you