The home directory is the top-level disk folder of a user on a POSIX-compliant computer system.It is where a user's focus is located upon login in a shell. It is home for all of the user's data, as well as the user's preferred settings and configuration of any software he uses and might have tailored to his liking: web navigator bookmarks, favorite desktop wallpaper and desktop theme, passwords to any external services used by a given software, and so on.