[SunHELP] home directories

[Steve Rieger]

Did you try -m

What is the exact syntax that you are using with the useradd command


On 11/30/04 2:17 PM, "Edward Chase" <echase at studentweb.providence.edu>
wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm currently working on setting up a Solaris 9 box.  As I try to useradd
> it's complaining to me that it cannot create the user's home directory.
> 
> If I do a useradd -D to see the default it's showing the home directory base
> as being /home
> 
> However /home looks like
> 
> dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Nov 30 09:45 home
> 
> In the past, I've seen home directories at /export/home
> 
> What is the "proper" way to proceed here?  Change the perms on /home so that
> root can create directores or change the default home directory base to
> /export/home?  In the linux world it's /home/user.  I'm not really sure
> where this /export/home/user thing comes from.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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