Hi, You probably have the SMF service autofs running, which is the NFS automounter. This is fairly common in Solaris and what it does is mount home directories into /home. This is handy is large NIS/NIS+/LDAP environments where home dirs sit on NFS servers or NAS filers. Normally, local accounts get created in /export/home. If you do not need the automounter service, you can disable it and create your account as originally intended.
Octave --- Drew Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed opensolaris on a x86 system and I am trying to > create a new user acount. I used the useradd but it failed to create > the new account because it could not write to the /home directory and > create the new user account. Here are the commands I used: > > # groupadd users > # useradd -c "Guest User" -d /home/guest -g users -m -s /usr/bin/tcsh > -u 100 guest > UX: useradd: ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: Operation > not applicable. > > I also tried to create directories in /home, but I was unable to do > so. I'm logged in as root, and root is shown as the owner of /home, > but root does not have write permission on /home and I was unable to > change the permission with chmod. Any thoughts would be greatly > appreciated. > > Drew "Newbie" > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > [email protected] > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
