On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:06 AM, vijeenrosh p.w <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all ,
>
> When I tried to create an new user account in my System (running on
> Ubuntu 10.10 ) using
>
> useradd and passwd , Every thigng went fine while executing the
> commands .
>
> useradd username
> passwd username
>
> but after executing these commands , when I looked in /home there were
> no directory named after new user created (ie, no home directory for
> new user created ) ,
>
> again , the users name is shown in the login lists
> and when tried to login to that account I got the following error
>
> "Couldnt update .ICEauthority " ,
>
> why there is no /home/usename directory after the user were
> succesfully created ?
> ("I think second error is consequence of that ")
>
> please help .
>
>From "man useradd"
-d, --home HOME_DIR
The new user will be created using HOME_DIR as the value for the
user's login directory. The default is to append the LOGIN name to
BASE_DIR and use that as the login directory name. The directory
HOME_DIR does not have to exist but will not be created if it is
missing.
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