On Thursday 09 June 2011 04:13:27 pm Martin McCormick wrote: > We have set up a backup server and the samba share > accounts we have on the system need to be in a file system that > is very large so I modified /etc/adduser.conf to put them in as > follows: > > # The DHOME variable specifies the directory containing users' home > # directories. > DHOME=/srv/backups > > When I ran adduser, it appeared to work and placed the > home directory in /srv/backups but if you su - testuser, it > complains that there is no home directory. > > The rest of the adduser.conf file is left as is. > > Is there a way to make these accounts work normally even > though they are in a different file system? > > Thank you.
How about adding a link in /home to /srv/backups as a part of the adduser script? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106121145.38663.m...@neidorff.com
