From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 11:13:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07730 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from okeefe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07724 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:13:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geniusj@suarez.bestweb.net) Received: from suarez.bestweb.net (suarez.bestweb.net [209.94.100.150]) by okeefe.bestweb.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA09128; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:12:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:12:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Dicioccio To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Creating new users In-Reply-To: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD96F@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, you should have /usr/home, and when you choose /home in adduser it simply makes a symbolic link /usr/home, it DOES NOT actually use /home. Perhaps you tampred too much with it? Or perhaps it wants the symbolic link and is trying to make a directory inside a directory that does not exist. Think it over. On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message