What is the difference between home directory and working
directory?
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Answer / suitable
home directory is one over which user have complete control
and it is its default working directory when its logs in.
while the working directory is the users current directory
which may or may not be his home directory.
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Answer / naveen nain
home directory is directory which is given to specific user
to save data and configuration files but working directory
is any directory where user make changes, it may be user's
home directory.
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Answer / satish dhote
home directory is default working directory when its loged
in .while when v r writting any program we are worked in
present working directory
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Answer / anil kumar
home directory is responsible for user logins and it
contains all the configuration files that r responsible for
user login,logout,etc ie skel.where as working directory is
users pwd.its not mandatory for all the users to have home
and home directory.while creating user the command
useradd -d will specify the home dir.
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Answer / kamal kakkar
Home directory is user home directory, where users all data
store like /home/abc and working dir is, we can say that its
like pwd (present working directory).
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Answer / kashyap
home directory would be a place where the user has full rights over it and where as working directory may change according to the privileges he has over the directory as it would shared among a group of people in a working environment.
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Answer / atul pandey
The root directory is the home directory of the super user
i.e root which is /root
A home directory for any user the the default directory for
the user which is under /home
For a user say test the home directory would be /home/test
A working directory is any directory that user is working
in.
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Answer / abdul
home directory is a default working directory when you log in as a user, working directory is your current directory that you are working in (pwd).
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Answer / shivmohanpatel
when user create by default in home directory. user's
directory create in home directory and permissions dir
owner all permissions group and other's no have permissions
while working directory is the users works in home
directory called working directory or present working
directory.
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Answer / aditya singh rathore
Home directory is directory that we get on login
shell,generally this is the directory that we specifies at
the time of user add,it is the root directory for the user
we can change it and working directory is the directory on
which we are currently working.
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