Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:29:26 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Peter Wiersig writes: > > What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? > > # getent passwd testuser > testuser:x:28000:28000:a b c,,,:/srv/backups/testuser:/bin/bash looking ok. > > what's the result of "ls -ld ~testuser /sr

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-12 Thread mark
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 t

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-10 Thread Martin McCormick
Peter Wiersig writes: > What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? # getent passwd testuser testuser:x:28000:28000:a b c,,,:/srv/backups/testuser:/bin/bash > what's the result of "ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups /srv /"? # ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups/testuser drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testu

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:27 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > 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. What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? what's the

Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-09 Thread Martin McCormick
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