[SunHELP] Problems with user/group

[Ben Ricker]

I have created a new user and group using useradd and groupadd
respectively. My first problem was that useradd did not create a home
directory. So, I created a directory, as root, in /home for the user and
changed its owner to the user and its permissions to 700. Then I edited
passwd so that the home directory is set. The entry looks like this:

username:x:1004:102::/home/username:/bin/sh

However, when I su into the account and cd into ~, I get permission
denied. /home has r-xr-xr-x permissions and the /home/username has the
permissions rwx------. 

Additionally, the group I setup for this username does not work right.
Here is the entry in /etc/group:

groupname::102:

Whenever I try to change any permissions to username:groupname, I get the 
following error:

chown: unknown user id username.groupname

Does this make sense? I have managed user/groups for dozens of users on
Linux but Solaris' user management is vexing me.

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Ben Ricker
System Adminstrator
Wellinx.com