howto change home path in /etc/passwd

[Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr]

Surlignage Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>:

> On Mon, 12 May 2003, sferriol wrote:
> 
> > hello
> > is there a command to change the home directory of a user in /etc/passwd
> > because ssh sees this file before $HOME and i have always a error.
> 
> Use an editor to edit /etc/passwd (as has been suggested).  Mind the line
> endings (I think).
> 
no my question is to do this automatically
because when the admin has installed cygwin on a computer, it adds users
and each users has to define the variable HOME,
but if they use ssh, they have to chang /etc/passwd too.

i want to create a install file which update automatically /etc/passwd, puts defaults files (bashrc, inputrc,...)
i see that there is the mkpasswd command but it doesn't do what i want

do you know when /etc/passwd is created???

sylvain




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