diff --git a/tripleoclient/utils.py b/tripleoclient/utils.py
index 4b434183e..fa2e4f991 100644
--- a/tripleoclient/utils.py
+++ b/tripleoclient/utils.py
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ def copy_clouds_yaml(user):
     :param user: deployment user
     """
     clouds_etc_file = '/etc/openstack/clouds.yaml'
-    clouds_home_dir = os.path.join('/home', user)
+    clouds_home_dir = os.path.expanduser("~{}".format(user))
     clouds_config_dir = os.path.join(clouds_home_dir, '.config')
     clouds_openstack_config_dir = os.path.join(clouds_config_dir,
                                                'openstack')
diff --git a/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_deploy.py b/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_deploy.py
index 2084e2bf7..c95982bc8 100644
--- a/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_deploy.py
+++ b/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_deploy.py
@@ -1422,6 +1422,12 @@ class Deploy(command.Command):
         self.log.debug("take_action(%s)" % parsed_args)
         utils.ansible_symlink()
 
+        if parsed_args.deployment_user == 'root':
+            self.log.warning(
+                _("[WARNING] Deployment user is set to 'root'. This may cause "
+                  "some deployment files to be located in /root. Please use "
+                  "--deployment-user to specify the user you are deploying "
+                  "with."))
         try:
             if parsed_args.standalone:
                 if self._standalone_deploy(parsed_args) != 0: