Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:45:17 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /home and /usr/home not created by bsdinstall Message-ID: <639a793a2f8c1bbbf48e32fc42054580@mail.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <20110901110859.2265f6cf.lists@yamagi.org> References: <20110901110859.2265f6cf.lists@yamagi.org>
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On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:08:59 +0200, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > Hi, > when installing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and choosing the auto partition > layout (Guided -> Entire Disk -> Exit -> Save) with no seperate > /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 Hi Yamagi, this was already reported and will be fixed in BETA2. The cause was a bug in pw(8). Cheers Lars
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