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Problems with SMC & home dirs
Name: Greg Davis Date: May 8, 2003 at 08:29:08 Pacific OS: Solaris 9 CPU/Ram: Sparc/384
Comment:
Hi, I've been creating user accounts with the Solaris Management Console. I've told it to use /export/home/username for the home directories, and it creates these with no problem. When I look up the /etc/passwd file though, it shows the home directories as /home/username. A further check in SMC shows that it still thinks /export/home/username is correct. Obviously something is getting out of sync somewhere. Anyone have any ideas as to how to correct this? So far, I've just been manually editing the passwd file, but I don't really want to have to do this for every new user!
Name: boardude Date: May 13, 2003 at 07:26:38 Pacific
Reply:
Are u using LDAP as namingservice?? if not use the cmd line... "useradd" command.. saves a lot of trouble (don't forget the -m option to make the home -dir!)
NAME useradd - administer a new user login on the system
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