i've done lots of solaris installs in the last year and one thing that i'm 
still a bit foggy on is moving my user's home directories to a ZFS filesystem.

whenever i install a system i use smc to add users and it creates their home 
directories.  i then make ZFS filesystems for each user and move the contents 
of the home directories to the new ZFS filesystems.  sometimes it works fine 
and sometimes it breaks gnome.

i'm sure it has to do with the automounter-- i've turned off the automounter by 
commenting out my users in /etc/auto_home.

one thing that's weird is in smc when you add a user it lists the home 
directory as /export/home/foo, but in /etc/passwd it adds the user entry with 
/home/foo.

so by disablng the automounter and fixing the /etc/passwd file to reflect 
/export/home/foo i can get it to work fine.

i'm just wondering if there is a better way...

maybe using 'useradd' command and telling it to not create home directory?
 
 
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