Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:21:04 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" <mhenry@white.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems creating new users Message-ID: <199811210421.UAA06546@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD98C@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> from "Gravel, Emmanuel" at Nov 20, 98 03:12:26 pm
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Hmm. This problem should probably be posted to -questions. I'll see if I can help though. > 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. "adduser" should have made all the necessary groups when you added the users. > 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. Is there a home directory listed for the users in /etc/passwd? > 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. Sounds like a permissions problem. Check the offending file and make sure it is owned by <user>. (Also check the home directory and the /usr/home directory). > 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, The directory /usr/home should belong to root:wheel, and the user's home directories should belong to <user>:<users group> > 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. I am myself a newbie, so my suggestions may not help. If this doesn't work you should go to -questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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