Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:12:26 -0700 From: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Problems creating new users Message-ID: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD98C@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>
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I've tried creating new users with the adduser program. At first I had created a directory called /usr/home and then made a symlink /home in the root dir. I then created new users pointing to /home as the home dir. All dirs were created and files were placed in. I had also created a new group in /etc/group called home. When I tried loging in as any of the users, I got a message saying that the user didn't have a home dir and was defaulting to the root dir. It also gave me this error message (I had afterwards removed the symlink and pointed everyone's home dir to /usr/home): login: _secure_path: cannot stat /usr/home/<user>/.login.conf: permission denied. Anyone know what this error means? I changed all the perms all the way to the user's home dirs to belong to group home, and gave rwx privs to the group for the dirs. I thougt this would give them permission to their home dir but the error message remained. This caught me completely off guard... I really don't understand what the problem is. Any clues? Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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