Anilrgowda

Question: Hello Experts,
I recently installed kubuntu. Wanted to change the path to home and used some graphical utility to do that. Everything went fine untill restart.
X wouldn't go up, because permissions issues with the new home.
How can I restore the default home path?

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Anilrgowda

A little more detail on this:

The default home directory is stored in /etc/passwd as has been said.
The file is a big list of users, and each line looks like this:
username:x:UID:GID:comment:homedir:shell

So you want to modify the second to last entry, probably to set it back to /home/username. Be careful in /etc/passwd not mess up the file. An easy editor that will edit nicely is nano -w (make sure you use the -w). Vim also works but its complicated if you don't know how to use it already.

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