On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:01:48PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Hi all,
When I add users, they get this when they login:
enterprise login: newuser
Password:
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
No mail.
That is very strange. What command did you use to add the user? Check
out
Hi all,
When I add users, they get this when they login:
enterprise login: newuser
Password:
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
No mail.
Why is no home directory available for them and how do I get the system to
create default directories by appending the username to /home?
I need to be able
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's
homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in /etc/passwd
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi all,
When I add users, they get this when they login:
enterprise login: newuser
Password:
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
No mail.
Why is no home directory available for them and how do I get the system to
create default directories
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
user's
homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in
Hm. usually the home directory is set up and
created in the adduser sequence.
You usually get something like:
home directory: (/home/$logname)
what you can do by hand is check your
/etc/passwd file and make sure the home directory
field
(ie the field before the shell path)
points to an existing
Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
than useradd?
Patrick
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
user's
homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
you may have other
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:06:59PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
user's
homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
you
Thanks!
Patrick
*- On 19 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote about Re: Adding users - two quick questions
Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
than useradd?
adduser is just a perl script that was written by Debian developers. It
ends up calling adduser as well as taking care
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