[Sunhelp] problem with /home permissions

[Paul Khoury - Tech Support]

At 08:50 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a new install of Solaris 7.  I am having trouble creating users with a
>home directory in /home.  The permissions on /home are 555 so even root can't
>create the user's directory in home and chmod gives me an error saying that I
>can't change home.  How do I set up home directories?
>

Go to the Solaris FAQ on the sunhelp main page.

This has to do with the NFS daemon automounting /home, and you can disable it
so you can make regular directoies there.




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Paul Khoury
Tech Support
pkhoury3 at earthlink.net