[ILUG] Changing a users home directory with passwd

[Paul Kelly]

Mark Finlay wrote:
> I want to be able to change a users home directory in a shell script
> (ie. without manually editing /etc/passwd).
> 
> man passwd says that passwd -h <username> should do it but when i do
> that it just says "Password changed"

Ummmm. Isn't that what usermod is for? Unless of course you're on some 
sort of archaic distribution like Tom's Root Boot Disk or Slackware.

Paul.