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Larry Linder wrote: | There is a problem with installing new users in a directory other than /home | Most of us work from our home directory some use a meg and some use many G. | | In our scheme to isolate users from OS's we have a number of large disk set up | as engr1, engr2, engrnn. A number of users have their login directory in | something other than /home. | | Red Hat some how got this messed up. | | If you install it, login as root, make a new user account that is like the old | account. /engr10/users/llinder. you will not be able to login as linder. | Not only that if you use the new user GUI and remove a user it will remove the | users directory that it couldn't find for a login !!!! | | The message you get is totally bogus. | | " Your home directory is listed as | '/engr/users/llinder' | but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to | login with /root directory? | It unlikely anything will work . . . | unless you use a failsafe | no yes | | " | To prove the point I added a new user "bogus" and it a / home/bogus directory | was created. Interesting because there was never a /home directory set up | during an install. So where is this magic /home directory. | | It looks like to use SL you have to assign a Tera byte drives to /home and let | the garbage pile up, Without much hope of doing an intelligent back up | | What we are planning to do till we can get this sorted out is to install Open | Suse 9.3 as 10.3 screwed up with LVM trash. | | Larry Linder - -- Robert E. Blair, Room C221, Building 360 Argonne National Laboratory (High Energy Physics Division) 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA Phone: (630)-252-7545 FAX: (630)-252-5782 GnuPG Public Key: http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb/key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLTiS5OMIGC6x7/XQRAi/pAJwP8JkFd2BKWjTj2by1jdV9L8q7KQCfTtDX QquR+8gXnjTYJGMc6uN08yI= =EAJm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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