Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:08:59 +0200
From:      Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org>
To:        nwhitehorn@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   /home and /usr/home not created by bsdinstall
Message-ID:  <20110901110859.2265f6cf.lists@yamagi.org>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--Signature=_Thu__1_Sep_2011_11_08_59_+0200_KwY4Z6srY/aJSvqT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,
when installing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and choosing the auto partition
layout (Guided -> Entire Disk -> Exit -> Save) with no seperate=20
/usr/home partition and adding no user accounts to the system
(Would you like to add users to the installed system now -> No) neither
the /usr/home directory nor the /home symlink are created. I'm not sure
if this is a bug or a feature, but adding users via adduser(8) or pw(8)
without the directory and symlink in existance results in "mkdir
(/home/xxx): No such file or directory", making the newly created user
account unusable. Therefor I'm suggesting that bsdinstall
creates /usr/home and the /home symlink in any case, regardless if
users are added or not.

Ciao,
Yamagi

--=20
Homepage:  www.yamagi.org
XMPP:      yamagi@yamagi.org
GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB

--Signature=_Thu__1_Sep_2011_11_08_59_+0200_KwY4Z6srY/aJSvqT
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD)

iEYEARECAAYFAk5fS7IACgkQWTjlg++8y8uT2gCeOmZXOeke0oSrN8BYkTFkcku/
z0MAmgPeyQ4Q2raA2jzx+kPErV6QcSuR
=Q9sr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Signature=_Thu__1_Sep_2011_11_08_59_+0200_KwY4Z6srY/aJSvqT--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110901110859.2265f6cf.lists>