On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:38:56PM -0600, Zaigui Wang wrote:
> what will prevent root user from doing "chmod 0755 /home"? I just could
> not do it!
Couple of possibilities... Why don't you give us the error message
you got and we might take a better guess. With the information you've
provided, the best I could give back is a WAG (Wild Ass Guess).
> My /home directory is defaulted to "0444". As a result, adduser
> command failed to create a home direcotry for new users.
What distro are you running? RedHat does NOT default to 444
on any system I have loaded.
Do you have /home on a separate partition? You may have it mounted
wrong if you do.
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