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I'm logged as root. Need to change home folder of another user but when I run usermod -d /path/to/new/home myuser it returns:

usermod: user myuser is being used by process xxxx

Said process is sshd. What do I do now? I'd rather not having to restart the server.

Note: it's a remote server. Will killing sshd also log me out (I'm logged as root, not as myuser)?

Christopher Francisco
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  • Who owns the `sshd` process in question? Would the owner be the user of the account you are trying to change? You will have multiple `sshd` processes if you have multiple users of your system. – MikeA Oct 07 '16 at 16:34

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