Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser

[Roy Marples]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 06:41 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> right, there is no way (by design) to force these settings on an already
> created user.  if the old path really truly should not be the old value, you
> can do something like this in pkg_setup:
> if [[ $(egetent passwd user | cut -d: -f6) == "/the/old/path" ]] ; then
> 	eerror "please run usermod -m -d /new/path ......"
> 	die "moocow"
> fi

You should also ensure that ${ROOT} is /

Thanks

Roy

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