Questions tagged [home]
The /home directory or partition contains user-specific configuration files, caches, application data and media files.
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Apache HTTP Server cannot access home directory
I have few different sites in the /home directory. It worked before the update, but now the Apache HTTP Server cannot access them. I get the error below: Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:58170] ...
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Separate /home partition not auto-mounted despite correct fstab
Unable to log in via the display manager, and when I go to a TTY, I get the error /home/user change directory failed no such file or directory. My home partition is on a separate partition. When I go ...
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Can I restore my home directory after freshly installing a new version of Fedora or should I first install the previous version and then upgrade
I have a backup from my home directory which was created under Fedora 40 (which was configured by my previous employer). Now I have a new SSD in my laptop on which I want to use Fedora 41 with the ...
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How to get to /home when I am in /Users
I am new to using Linux so I am not sure how to fix this problem. When I would use the pwd command it would show /Users/(my name). However, I need to get to the home directory and can't figure out a ...
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The difference in user home directories access from live USB sticks
I created two users on my Mint 21.3 system: user1 (1000) was created during installation user2 (1001) I added later Both have their home directories in /home, with exactly the same drwxr-x--- ...
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MacOS: I have a home directory within my home directory
I have never seen my home directory in my home directory until recently. Is this something I need to be worried about? I do not know if this is something problematic.
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Question about home directory permissions script
When setting Azure policy on a Linux VM, Microsoft uses the OMS agent to configure everything, in particular, the omsremediate command. Looking through their GitHub site for the OMS agent for Linux, ...
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What caused USER to have "root" as OWNER and GROUP instead of the user's name? How do I change it?
/home (machine 1) PERMISSION | OCTAL | OWNER GROUP NAME drwxr-xr-x | 755 | root root . drwxr-xr-x | 755 | root root .. drwxr-xr-x | ...