From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 10:58:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05586 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwembaz0001.honeywell.com (hwembaz0001.cas.honeywell.com [129.239.10.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05564 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com) Received: by hwembaz0001.Honeywell.COM with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:57:49 -0700 Message-ID: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD96F@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> From: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Creating new users Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:57:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've tried to create new users with adduser. I've created a home dir within the usr dir (I didn't create a /home partition before and my root partition is definetely not for normal users). At first I was getting messages stating that the user had no home dir and reverted to /. It also said something about _secure_path (can't remember the full message). So I changed perms on /usr and /usr/home so they belonged to group home and were read/write by the group. I also checked all the files and the /usr/home/ dir. All belonged to and were at least read/write by him. The message I get (still reverting to /) is: login: _secure_path: cannot stat /usr/home//.login.conf: permission denied. I really don't know what the problem is, and there's only one place where creating users is mentionned in the Complete FreeBSD book, so I guess it was understood that creating new users was pretty straight forward. Any clues? Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message