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I have recently installed Raspbian onto a Raspberry Pi. As part of the installation process I changed the user name and group from the default (pi) to my own (let's call it user) using usermod and groupmod. I as well moved the home directory /home/pi to the new user name /home/user using usermod. Everything works fine except that when I login using SSH instead of landing the new user directory /home/user I end up at the home directory /home.

Just as the directory /home/user exists with permissions 755. In addition to that the /etc/passwd file contains an entry that looks like the following:

user:x:1000:1000:User:/home/user:/bin/bash.

To me everything looks fine, but still when I login from SSH I get a prompt that looks like:

user@raspberrypi /home $.

Any idea why this may be happening or any simple solution? It's not a big deal but it is confusing me.

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    Take a look at your user entry in the /etc/passwd file. Make sure that the entry matches your expected home directory. – Steve Robillard Sep 8 '12 at 22:38
  • Can you tell us the output of the command echo $HOME. That's where the shell believes your user directory is. – Jivings Sep 9 '12 at 16:25
  • Is it only ssh or any login (if you have another way to log in). Have you restarted the device since the change? – XTL Sep 10 '12 at 5:51
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Is the /home/user directory owned by user? If you created it as root or as pi then it probably won't be. Try sudo chown user /home/user to remedy this.

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