From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 17: 8:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE4537B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0M17ZZ63707; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:07:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: pw useradd -D command From: Joe Clarke To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 21 Jan 2002 20:08:45 -0500 Message-Id: <1011661726.85870.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 17:58, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > This sets up a default /etc/pw.conf file where the > defaults can be edited. Man page says pw will create > hone directory /usr/home/userid and copy over .files > from /usr/share/skel. When I enter pw useradd tom > followed by pw usershow tom it shows tom's home as > /home/tom which is what I expected. But when I check > out /usr/home/ there is no tom directory. When I login > as tom I get message saying logged in at ./ which is wrong. > Am I doing some thing wrong, or is this really a bug in > pw that needs to be reported? Are you sure /home exists as a symlink to /usr/home? Perhaps, it's setting tom's home to /home/tom when /home doesn't really exist. Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message