[geeks] solaris 8 user problem

[Big Endian]

>OK, I do:
>
>useradd -g 100 -u 500 joshua
>
>which adds the line:
>joshua:x:500:100::/home/joshua:/bin/sh
>to /etc/passwd
>
>When I log in, I see:
>No directory! Logging in with home=/
>
>Now, I remeber being told that this had to do with solaris 8 symlinking
>/home/userid to /export/home/userid on login, but I don't remeber what I'm
>supposed to do about it, nor am I having much luck finding the answer in
>the archives or my mail file (I save almost everything, but I ocasionally
>save things to the wrong file, and/or misplace files).

solaris 8 doesn't by default create/configure a user's home directory.

usermod  -d /export/home/joshua joshua

daniel
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