On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:00:32PM +0000, Tom H wrote: >> >> I'm not an adduser user so that's why I checked the manpage for "-d". >> >> If your assumption that useradd short options should be understood >> adduser, isn't this a bug? > > I don't know. But the behaviour of adduser and useradd is consistent in > this regard: > > # userdel test > # useradd -d /var/a/b/c test > Creating mailbox file: File exists > useradd: cannot create directory /var/a/b/c > # userdel test > # adduser -d /var/a/b/c test > Creating mailbox file: File exists > adduser: cannot create directory /var/a/b/c > > If that's a bug, it's sure a longstanding one - I've reproduced it on > RHEL5 (which has userland from 2006).
When you use useradd, you need to add "-m" in order to create the homedir. -- 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/CAOdo=SwCjwwyaiw=acbemvxdntfcxjj-orrxtyamio4r5u0...@mail.gmail.com
