From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 12:01:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13503 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:01:36 -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 MAA13497 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:01:31 -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 13:00:49 -0700 Message-ID: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD977@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> From: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Creating new users Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:00:49 -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 >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. This is something I had thought over. I didn't just simply press at each line (as you seem to imply when you say "when you choose /home"). I actually entered /usr/home instead of /home. Also, my first tries were with a symlink /home pointing to /usr/home, which had given me the same problems. In terms of tampering, apart from adding group home by hand within /etc/group and changing the group ownership of /usr and /usr/home (plus making them writable by the group) I don't see what else I could have done that would have given me this problem. I mean, the directory is there, all the files are there, the files and home dir all belong to the user and are read/write user and group, why is it choking and giving me a _secure_path error each time I try to login as that user??? Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message