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! 
| My /home directory is defaulted to "0444". As a result, adduser
| command failed to create a home direcotry for new users.

I don't suppose you have the automount/amd daemon running? It's default
distribution often includes a mount on /home, making /home a
pseudodirectory (for want of a better word) - you can't do much to it.
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