On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:22:49PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
> Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:
> > Solaris 8 question for those in the know.
> > 
> > We have successfully installed Solaris 8 (no linux sparc distros
> > arrived/turned up), but are having trouble creating users. Basically
> > /home is 555 and any attempts to chmod +w/755/etc are being rebuffed.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas on this?
> 
> /home is an automount path on Solaris by default.
> 
> Home directions are built in /export/home

yep, as Crossfire says, either kill the automounter (and disable
it in /etc/rc*.d) or put home dirs somewhere else.  I use /users.

Dave.

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