Questions tagged [home-directory]
A part of the filesystem owned by a particular user, where the user's files are saved and user-specific configuration files are written and used by applications.
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How to move 'snap' folder to another location?
I used some snaps on my system and I found a snap folder in my home. I would like to know if there is a safe way to move the snap folder to another location, away from the home folder.
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How can I safely remove the ~/Snap folder?
I'd love to delete the Snap folder in my home. It takes 97 GB of space. No package manager should be allowed this amount of space in the /home mount point!
How can I safely delete Snap and all its ...
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How to make an encrypted home folder accessible by two local users?
My wife and I are sharing a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I would like to encrypt the Home folder of each of us while still maintaining access by the other.
The encryption part using eCryptfs ...
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tmp directory in $HOME with behavior like /tmp
TL;DR: How can I set up either via a bash command executed as user or a bash command executed only once as sudo a temporary directory in $HOME which has the same behavior as the global /tmp directory?
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Are there special functionalities to Ubuntu default directories in home?
A fresh Ubuntu (16.04.3) installation comes with a home directory ~/ that is filled with the following default folders:
Music
Videos
Pictures
Documents
Templates
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From another post, I know that ...
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Automatically logged out as soon as I log in
Ubuntu 16.04 logs me out automatically after I log in. This thing started after I tried to extract Matlab to a folder in my home directory which in turn got extracted to the home directory. Please can ...
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Can't access encrypted home from other Ubuntu releases from 13.04
Today I installed Raring Ringtail (again), 13.04 (production release), clean in a fresh partition on an AMD X2 64-bit system. I have a parallel installation of 12.10 and another one of 12.04 on other ...
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Use encrypted Home between two Ubuntu
I have an encrypted "/home" partition separated from "/" partition using ubuntu12.04.
Now I want to install ubuntu13.04.Can I share that "/home" partition as ubuntu13.04's "/home" and use it for these ...
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Missing files in /home directory after boot crash during software update
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04; during a routine software update the PC crash for some reason. Here is the situation now:
Looping during desktop log-in: each time I try to log-in via the desktop it loops ...
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Home directory for user nobody - Ubuntu 20.04
I see a difference in the behaviour of the user "nobody" between Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.
In both (18.04 and 20.04) versions, the user nobody is configured as:
nobody:x:65534:65534:...
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Create debian package with relative install path
I am creating a debian package with a minimal layout (for a hypothetical package called "skate"). Here's the directory structure:
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├── LICENSE
├── packaging
│ └── debian
│ └── ...
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How to unmount an ecryptfs .Private directory mounted at /tmp?
Say that I want to view the contents of an encrypted home directory, I can simply use "sudo ecryptfs-recover-private " and it will mount an unencrypted copy at /tmp. That's all fine and good, but how ...
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Desktop install: Separate home partition (LVM on LUKS) without using terminal
How can I install Ubuntu desktop ≥16.04.1 with these options (LVM on LUKS):
but with a separate home LV in the LUKS volume without using a terminal?
I can do this with the Ubuntu Server installer ...
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NFS mounted home dirs, Is it safe to restart the server's NFS service?
The purpose of this NFS server is to provide all users consistent access to their files and settings by serving their home dirs.
The server is running Ubuntu 12 and the NFS config is at it's defaults....
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vsftpd: user folder on different hard disk
The situation:
Having a secure FTP-server for backing up data. I installed vsftpd following this guide. It works as expected with TLS.
vsftpd: version 3.0.2
Ubuntu version 15.10
The FTP-user named ...
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Which hidden files in the /home/user folder control the desktop?
The background story:
The other day my (L)ubuntu offered me to upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS, which I gladly accepted. At the end of the evening, I started the update out of the update manager, ...
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TRIM and encrypted home folders
I have enabled TRIM for my root partition by adding discard in /etc/fstab, following How to enable TRIM?
They mention that special steps are needed if I have an encrypted partition. I have encrypted ...
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Will I able to access ecryptfs -ed folders in another installed Ubuntu?
I have a HDD with Linux Ubuntu partition but with no Linux only Win7. I found a solution how to access and save my ext2 Linux files in Windows. I downloaded DiskInternals Linux reader. It accesses my ...
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Why suddenly appears mounted the /media/username/disk?
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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Just today, few minutes ago through the Dock, I did do realize that was mounted the /media/username/...
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Empty XDG user directories turn into symbolic links
For some reasons, when an XDG user directory (i.e., Desktop, Downloads, Templates, Public, Documents, Music, Pictures, or Videos) is empty, it turns into a symbolic link after some time. Below is an ...
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move away all zsh conf files from the home folder
I could move all my zsh related files (.zshrc, .zprofile ...) to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh setting the variable ZOTDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh" but there is a file I can't move: .zprofile.
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OneDrive and Ubuntu 20.04
I can't find information about this anymore so I am guessing this is highly unlikely scenario and probably not possible. However I wondered if someone has ever attempted it.
Has anyone tried using ...
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Change $HOME and logout user
I wanted to change my $HOME, so I looked on this forum for answers. I saw a way to change $HOME with the code
sudo usermod -d /path/to/new/home -m username
but when I entered the code it said
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.Private is 14x time bigger than /home -> disk almost full
I'm having an issue with my encrypted home folder:
I enabled /home/theUser encryption when creating theUser.
I don't have a proper /home/theUser/.Private directory (it's a link as shown by Luís de ...
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useradd ignores defaults in /etc/default/useradd
FTP Migration. Moving the FTP server from Windows to Ubuntu, and rebuilding the storage for FTP on a different server. I'm doing a one time pass to create about 100 users, all with the same password,...
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Logging in, I get errors and a very strange prompt
Today I tried logging in to my Ubuntu system from SSH and I noticed that I have a very strange prompt:
I have no name!@(none):(unreachable)$
All tools such as ls fail with an error of no such file ...
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Migrate user settings from 14.04 to 16.04
I have a fresh install of ububtu 16.04 in a new hd, on my old hd my 14.10 i'been using till now.
I'd like to move all my settings to my new home (all .* files&dirs)
Any catch and gotchas?
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Wine making folders in home directory
So I am noticing that Wine is making folders in my home directory, I know that winetricks sandbox prevents making symlinks and stuff like that, but my save folders are in those folders, how do I make ...
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how to move files from an encrypted home to a new one?
Yesterday I have recovered (not reinstalled) Ubuntu 16.04 in the same partition of my old home, so I created a new home with a different name, a new password and a new passphrase .
I have lost all the ...
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Recovering my encrypted home folder
Here is my situation.
I completely broke my Ubuntu on my main drive, and it just boots into a black screen and doesn't work, it is dead.
I need to recover my encrypted home folder with a live USB. I ...
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Why is the Public folder not bookmarked by default?
I am wondering why all default home folders are represented in the sidebar but the Public folder.
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What will happen to home partition if I reinstall ubuntu
I decided to reinstall ubuntu because of many problems that I can't fix. I have a home partition that is encrypted. If I reinstall ubuntu can I access to /home and how to do it. I don't know the ...
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Home folder name different than user name
I just started dual booting Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, and sharing the home partition which I labeled HOME. As this gets more and more exciting, I want to try out the different distros; but still keep ...
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14.04 samba-winbind pam_mkhomedir.so home directory ownership
After joining ubuntu 14.04 to our Active-Directory Domain using samba-winbind pam_mkhomedir creates home, but ~/.config and other directories are owned by root, preventing graphical login. Please help....
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Accidentaly deleted contents of the home folder
so, I wanted to rename the user and its corresponding home folder following the instructions mentioned here How do I change my username?. However, what this made me is to rename the account, not the ...
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permissions not work samba4
first time writing but I'm desperate and I think you can help
me ... my English is very bad I speak Spanish ... I install Samba4 on
Ubuntu 12 and all is well, I can join computers to the domain and ...
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Moving encrypted home folder to a new hard drive
Recently I bought a new hard drive. I'd like to turn this hard drive into the /home. During original install I set my home directory up as encrypted. At this point I dont know how to move the home ...
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Lost Permission of Home Directory
I recently messed up my Ubuntu Setup, so I re-installed and choose to use my existing Home directory .
Now I cannot launch Ubuntu-Tweak as myself, but am able to do so with sudo command.
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Device is busy error when trying to unmount tmpfs home area
I have been trying to get pam_mount to mount a tmpfs drive for domain users, so that it is volatile storage and is cleared on every logout. The problem I found was that although the area would mount ...
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How to change a user ID safely if you are using encrypted home?
Inspired by this question, that seems to imply that a simple chown won't work because you won't be able to access the encrypted files. So how is the safest but still simple workaround?
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WindowsXP Guest OS runs only when its Virtual HDD is in the home folder of Ubuntu
I am into a weird problem. I have installed VirtualBox in my Precise Pangolin in my laptop. My System contains two partitions. Lets presume that they are partition A and Partition B. Partition A ...
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How to stop Nautilus from using Home as Desktop Folder?
As of a recent boot, my desktop folder is defaulting to ~/. I would prefer the default behaviour : the desktop directory should be ~/Desktop.
As a first way to solve my problem I tried
gconftool-2 -...
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Mount old home as actual home
I'm new on ubuntu and I had Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity.
I had home on separate partition (not decrypted).
Today I install Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 on old boot partition. I want now mount old home as actual ...
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Mount encrypted home during boot (dm-crypt, luks)
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my notebook having kept an old luks encrypted partition on my drive.
This partition shows up in the file manager an can be mounted from there into /media/[UUID].
Now I ...
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I am dual booting windows 11 and ubuntu 22.04.3 currently. Can I use a separate new partition for both windows and ubuntu to store personal files?
I'm dual booting windows 11 and ubuntu is there anyway that I can keep my personal files in the same but a separate partition?
Windows 11 is installed in C: . (NTFS)
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Is it possible to monitor hidden file creation using auditctl? Ubuntu 20.04
I want to monitor creation of hidden files in /home/user. Is it possible to create a rule which triggers when any hidden file created in /home/user folder using auditctl? (* or any other methods?)
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why cannot umount an lvm partition?
I have an Ubuntu Server 22.04. The disks are managed using LVM partition. My /var partition needs a size increasing. So I thought to reduce the /home size, so that I could increase /var.
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VirtualMin Changing default document_root for Virtual Servers
I am currently using the latest version of Virtualmin on an Ubuntu server. I need to migrate several websites from an old server to this new server. In the old server, all the websites are located in ...
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What is the difference between `$HOME/bin` and `$HOME/.local/bin` ? When to use use one over the other?
According to this post, $HOME/.local/bin is used to store user-specific binaries. But I see in this post that $HOME/bin serves a similar purpose.
What am I missing? When should I use one over the ...
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Mount samba shared directory as user home folder on the guest virtual machine
I want to run several Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machines based on libvirt that share the same home folder for the user.
On the host I created the following samba shared folder:
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