From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 7:57: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tvt.ne.jp (tvtsv2.tvt.ne.jp [210.253.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FA637B400 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:57:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigerden (askey-gw.tvt.ne.jp [210.253.56.3]) by tvt.ne.jp (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g2LFum663968; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:56:48 +0900 (JST) To: bsd@perimeter.co.za, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw -m with -V From: Martin References: <5.0.2.6.2.20020320202415.01eb66f0@mail.tvt.ne.jp> <00ae01c1d004$b1ffc320$b50d030a@patrick> In-Reply-To: <00ae01c1d004$b1ffc320$b50d030a@patrick> Message-Id: <200203220057.DEC20470.IEODB@tvt.ne.jp> X-Mailer: Winbiff [Version 2.33PL2 (on Trial)] X-Accept-Language: ja,en Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:57:05 +0900 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the reply. I should have stated in my earlier mail that I have a copy of pw. conf in /var/yp, and it has the location for the home directory set correctly. Unfortunately, even if I use the -d switch on the command line it still doesn't create the directory. Any other guidance would be appreciated. Martin In message <00ae01c1d004$b1ffc320$b50d030a@patrick> "Re: pw -m with -V" ""Patrick O'Reilly" " wrote: > Martin, > > You need to use -C so that pw will read your normal pw.conf file, and > hence know where to create the user's home directory. Or, put a copy of > /etc/pw.conf into /var/yp . > > man pw, and study the -V section for the explanation of this. > > Patrick. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message