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How to change the homedirectory for users?
This is important if you want multiple users to access your NAS through SSH, or just simple have a home directory for settings in shell commands such as midnight commander. By default, new users made on the webinterface do not have a home directory. First thing to do is create those directories and give ownership:
create directories and give ownership:
mkdir /ffp/home;
mkdir /ffp/home/test;
chown test /ffp/home/test/
create startup script that changes homedirectory
Because NAS resets the Home directory of the users (i dunno why), create a startup script that changes the homedirectory for the users:
echo ”!/bin/sh” > /ffp/start/sethomes.sh;
chmod +x /fpp/start/sethomes.sh
For each user append the script with the following:
echo “usermod -d /ffp/home/test test” » /ffp/start/sethomes.sh;
Alternative: home folders on different drives
If you like you home directory available through /home, next to root and ftp, which is more elegant then do the following:
echo ”!/bin/sh” > /ffp/start/sethomes.sh;
chmod +x /fpp/start/sethomes.sh
And for each user:
echo “usermod -d /home/test test” » /ffp/start/sethomes.sh;
echo “ln -s /ffp/home/test/ /home/test” » /ffp/start/sethomes.sh;
That's it.
