how to change a user home directory to adirectory that already exits?
Solution 1:
The message is only informational - the change should be accepted regardless.
Ex. given
$ getent passwd testuser
testuser:x:1001:1001:,,,,[email protected]:/home/testuser:/bin/sh
then
$ sudo mkdir /home/foo
$ sudo usermod -m -d /home/foo testuser
usermod: directory /home/foo exists
however the home directory was successfully changed
$ getent passwd testuser
testuser:x:1001:1001:,,,,[email protected]:/home/foo:/bin/sh
And just to be sure:
$ su - testuser
Password:
$ pwd
/home/foo