Renamed Home Directory

[macgreine]

I am running Kali Linux via a usb sick with persistence. Now my home directory name has changed (inexplicably) from kali@kali to kali@Windows8. All the content in the directory is unchanged. Attempts to rename the directory leads to no such directory (Windows8) One hour previous the directory displayed


┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$

The next hour after reboot we have the following.

┌──(kali㉿Windows8)-[~]
└─$

Any ideas how to change this back to thge original?


Thanks

[macgreine]

Ok, quick update. Once I discovered that Windows8 in the above was a host name changing it back was simple. Using nano edit 2 files replacing Windows8 with the old host name (kali in this instance.)

The terminal commands were:
sudo nano /etc/hostname
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Changing the hostname file did the trick. The hosts file had the correct hostname, so no editing was needed. The information was found in a simple google search
at this url: https://kalilinuxtutorial.com/change...on-kali-linux/ Issued solved! Thanks for posting on the forum.