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Date:      21 Jan 2002 20:08:45 -0500
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pw useradd -D command
Message-ID:  <1011661726.85870.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEFACNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEFACNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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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

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