[SunHELP] /home unusable

[Larry Snyder]

I'd bet on the automounter maps....
-ls-

Kelvin Chu <kc at ih.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Was the drive mounted read only somehow?
> 
> K
> Miguel Cardenas wrote:
> 
> >Hello list
> >
> >I was trying to add a user to my solaris box, but useradd fails telling me 
> >"Operation not applicable"...
> >
> >Tried to create it by hand the home directory with mkdir, but I get the same 
> >error... changed to / and 'ls' tells that /home is dr-xr-xr-x, tried to 
> >change to drwxr-xr-x by running 'chmod 755 /home' but I get "WARNING: can't 
> >change /home'
> >
> >How can I change its mode and allow the new user home directory be created 
> >inside? simply can't do nothing to '/home'
> >
> >Am logged in as root, still have not users.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >P.S.
> >I did this:
> >
> ># groupadd -g 500 reno
> >
> ># useradd -u 500 -g reno -d /home/reno -s /usr/bin/bash -m reno
> >UX: useradd: ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: Operation not 
> >Applicable.
> >
> >#mkdir /home/reno
> >mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/reno": Operation not applicable
> >
> ># chmod 755 /home
> >chmod: WARNING: can't change /home
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