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Hey, welcome back.

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So in this lesson, we are going to learn about the home directory.

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Now, as the name suggests, home, this is the home directory or the home folder for each user.

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Now, for example, if you use a username or if you add a user, Rohit into a computer, you have a

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home folder for that user, which is Rohit into the home directory.

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So it would look something like this which is slash home, slash Rohit.

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Now this home folder contains Rohit users data files or any user specific configuration files that he

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makes.

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Now, you should remember one very important thing that each user only has right access to their own

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home folder.

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That means Rohit cannot modify if there is any other user X, Y, Z, or Rohit cannot modify the root

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user's home directory that is slash root.

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Now to do that, he should have elevated privileges or permissions from the root user.

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All right.

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So we understood basically what is a home directory, which is the user's home directory.

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So let's see in the practical time, what exactly create one.

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All right.

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So let's quickly navigate first into the home directory, which is KD slash home and hit enter and let's

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see what is over here.

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So there are few users into this computer as you can see admin pad, Joker, Rohit, Shifa, etc.,

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which are the users that have been created and they're each specific individual home directory in which

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they can work.

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Now in case you want to add a new user in this system and automatically you want a home directory to

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be created for that user in which they can work for that.

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The command that you are going to use is user add hyphen M now hyphen M stands for to add a new home

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directory if does not exist.

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So let's say we are going to add a new user or let's say Hacker Pro and I'm going to hit enter and you

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can see it says the user already exists, no problem.

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So we are going to modify this and let's say instead of hacker, we are going to add us a pro and hit

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enter and you can see it successfully added the user and let's verify if a new directory has been successfully

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created or not.

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And you can see there is a new home directory for the user that we created just now that was crack a.

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Now this user then makes any changes or needs to do any configuration file change.

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He can do that into his respective home directory, which is crack pro.

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So I hope you guys understood the importance and usage of the Home Directory into the Linux file system.

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Thank you.