Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:08:02 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Cyril Brion <cbri@saios.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help please Message-ID: <98519.939730082@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:47:37 %2B0200." <38031FD9.D22680E@saios.com>
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:47:37 +0200, Cyril Brion wrote:
> I can create a new user with adduser, but when the user is logged with
> his log name, he cannot do operations like create a file, or compile a
> .c file,... because its directory is write protected.
So the obvious question is _why_ is the user's home directory not
writable to the user? You're the only person who can answer this. :-)
Possible answers are:
1) You selected a read-only filesystem for the user's home
directory. Don't do that. :-)
2) You selected an invalid home directory for the user. Unlikely,
but make sure that the home directory exists. You can do this by
searching the file /etc/passwd for the username:
grep ^username: /etc/passwd
e.g.:
grep ^sheldonh: /etc/passwd
sheldonh:*:1000:0:Sheldon Hearn:/home/sheldonh:/usr/local/bin/bash
Check the second-last field.
You can check the permissions of your user's home directory with this
command:
ls -ld /path/to/home/directory
e.g.:
ls -ld /home/sheldonh
drwxr-xr-x 21 sheldonh wheel 2048 Oct 12 14:06 /home/sheldonh
> to change this manually from root?
As root, you can change the user's home directory with the ``chpass''
command:
chpass username
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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