Re: no user home directory

2005-08-07 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:45:00PM +0100, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Hi > > > > > You need to use the '-m' option to useradd. > > > > > I tried that and it still complained that it did not have permission > to create .gnome and .gnome2 > > I can't see what the problem is as the permissions s

Re: no user home directory

2005-08-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:18:49PM +0100, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to add a user directory but when ever I create a new user it does > not create a home directory for that user and so thus you can't log in. > > Why is this not working for me?anybody suggest a way to fix thi

Re: no user home directory

2005-08-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I am trying to add a user directory but when ever I create a new user it does not create a home directory for that user and so thus you can't log in. Why is this not working for me?anybody suggest a way to fix this? Cheers Did you try adduser instead of user

Re: no user home directory

2005-08-06 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi > > You need to use the '-m' option to useradd. > I tried that and it still complained that it did not have permission to create .gnome and .gnome2 I can't see what the problem is as the permissions seem right. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [

Re: no user home directory

2005-08-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 06.08.2005 at 23:18 +0100, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > I am trying to add a user directory but when ever I create a new user > it does not create a home directory for that user and so thus you > can't log in. > > Why is this not working for me?anybody suggest a way to fix this? You