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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers directory permissions and CHMOD Post 26304 by RTM on Wednesday 14th of August 2002 01:00:06 PM
Old 08-14-2002
Our site uses NIS with home directories on a NetApp server. The only way to create directories with this configuration is to be on a server that is Master in NIS and a Master of the NetApp server.

You may be hitting the same type of situation. If you are adding a local user, then put their home directory as /export/home/userX.
 

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NWTRUSTEE2(1)							    nwtrustee2							     NWTRUSTEE2(1)

NAME
nwtrustee2 - Lists trustees and permissions of a ncp directory SYNOPSIS
nwtrustee2 [ -h ] [ -? ] [ -v ] [ directory ] DESCRIPTION
nwtrustee2 lists the permissions assigned to any trustees for a given ncp directory. It does not show the inherited permissions, but only the ones directly assigned to it. The letters used to express the permissions are explained in the nwgrant(1) manpage. The directory has to belong to a volume mounted with ncpmount or mount.ncp, if omited the current directory is used. OPTIONS
-h or -? -h or -? prints a short help text. -v Verbose mode. Prints the directory name before procesing. SEE ALSO
nwtrustee(1), nwgrant(1), nwrevoke(1), nwrights(1) AUTHORS
nwtrustee2 was written by Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>. This manual page was written by Maximiliano Curia <maxy@gnuservers.com.ar>. nwtrustee2 10/16/2005 NWTRUSTEE2(1)
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