[CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

[Cameron Kerr]

On 1/02/2011, at 7:19 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:

Lots of good advice snipped 

> 12. Tell your users emphatically that they should use $HOME anywhere
>     they're tempted to hardwire their home directory path into a
>     script. :-)

Although this is still painful for any users who might have compiled their own software. (libraries, etc)

In some environments this can be common.