What is the difference between home directory and working
directory?

Answer Posted / 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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