I want to create an alias of my home folder but I don't have write permissions on parent directory.
I used to have a username (user
) on an old server. But now, I'm using a new server and my username has been changed to user2
. Many of my scripts have absolute path to my old home folder name (/home/user
). I want them to be compatible on my new server, in which my home folder now is different (/home/user2
).
Obviously, I could've just created a symbolic link to my previous home name (ln -s /home/user2 /home/user
). However, I don't have write permissions to the /home
directory.
Is there any alternate option to create such alias without root permissions?
Details:
I'm using CentOS 5.