>> it's clear you're not very comfortable >> managing a *nix system. > >Which is amusing, as I administered Solaris (as well as FreeBSD, Linux, >HP-UX and SCO Unix) for seven years (although it's been almost as long again >since I've been out of the job).
>But there are some things in OpenSolaris which strike me as strange, and >'non-Solaris'. For example, when I created the original user during the >install, its permissions were 700, yet when I created a second user afterwards, >they were 755. Nor have I ever come across a situation where I couldn't >delete a user directory as root. Even when dropping down to single-user mode, >I still cannot delete that directory. I can't umount it, either. Telling me >that I can't delete a directory if I 'su' as that user is pretty insulting, >really. Well, it would be, but since I didn't tell anyone I used to do this >for a living, I'm not offended. :) > >I'm obviously doing something wrong, but that's OK. I've created another >user directory for myself, and the 'old' one is sitting empty. I'll live >with it. > >Thanks for the advice, anyway. :) Since Solaris 2.x was first shipped, there was a "/home" directory controlled by the auto mounter. Now that we have "zfs", it's easy to create a filesystem per-user. In neither scenario, it's not possible to remove the directory with "rmdir". To remove a file controlled by the automounted, you will need to update the auto map (/etc/auto_home). To remove a zfs filesystem, use "zfs destroy <filesystem>". I assume it's the latter as the automounter probably isn't started when you've booted single user. Casper
