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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:00:49 -0700
From:      "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Creating new users
Message-ID:  <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD977@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>

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>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 <ENTER>
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

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