Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from
fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and
everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create
/home/user_name ? No problem, I created that directory. However,
startx as that user gives errors. I
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:10 AM, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from
fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and
everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create
/home/user_name ? No problem, I created that
El Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:10:45 +
THUFIR HAWAT dijo:
Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from
fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and
everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create
/home/user_name ? No problem, I created that
On 3/21/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory
and own it by the user being added.
..
Ah, thanks all for responding :)
-Thufir
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:42 +
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
On 3/21/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory
and own it by the user being added.
..
Ah, thanks all for responding :)
-Thufir
Big tip of the day:
or, we can just do it the easy way:
useradd -d /home/user_name user_name.
On 3/21/06, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:42 +
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
On 3/21/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:42 +
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
On 3/21/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory
and own it by the user being added.
..
Ah, thanks all for responding
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:36:06 -0500, Erik Westenbroek wrote:
or, we can just do it the easy way:
useradd -d /home/user_name user_name.
Except that still doesn't create the directory, which is what the OP
wanted. In fact, the -d option is superfluous here, since /home/user_name
is the default.
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