Most of our users have the same home directory, I know it's weird but it has been like this before me and we don't want to change that for now. When creating a new user using command useradd, it is not allowing me to create it because it is using the home directory of someone else. I do use this command under a script :
Variables works fine...actually if I chose another home dir it is working fine. Just when 2 users have the same home dir. I know that you can go under SAM and change it, but still if you do that, the home dir will become own by the new user... I don't want that. So the other option is vipw the password file and change it manually... you also understand that I don't want that too. I thought about using sed to make the change in the password file using the script...but hummm ..no so sure if it is a good thing to do... any idea?
How do I remove a directory named: $HOME
$ rm "$HOME"
rm: $HOME is a directory
$ rmdir "$HOME"
rmdir: directory "/home/bob": Directory is a mount point or in use (4 Replies)
I am little bit confused when the words "root directory" and "home directory" and "parent directory" are used. Can anybody explains the difference.
I am trying to list the names and protections levels and size of visible files in the root directory
would it be correct if I just typed:
ls... (2 Replies)
I created a new user and assigned a certain home dir to tis user. I've noticed that this home dir (/export/home/test) is already assigned to other users. I really want to create a dedicated home dir for the new user. Can anyone tell me how I can modify this user with a new homedir?
Thx for... (4 Replies)
Hello,
i need to create a user who's access is restricted only to his home directory and below,
i restricted his pty access by adding 'no-pty' to the options of the ssh key in authorized_keys file. However, sftp access still allows this user access to all my file system
thanks (5 Replies)
Hi,
I want suggestion about user home directories, checking. how i could calculate this. I have 200 Users.
if home-dir-of-user1 > 250 MB -> print "OK"
fi
if home-dir-of-user1 > 500 MB > Print "Warning"
fi
if home-dir-of-user1 > 1000 MB > Print "Critical"
fi
Thanks,
Bash (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have to mount my home directory in one box, by default everyone's home directory will mount in all unix boxes which we have. But we have unmounted these home directories from some boxes to keep the data as safe. So for automation purpose i need my home directory only in those boxes to... (2 Replies)
Hi all
i am using solaris 10, i am creating user with
useradd -d/home/user -m -s /bin/sh user
user is created with in the following path
/export/home/user (auto mount)
i need the user to be created like this
(/home as default home directory )
useradd -d /home/user -m -s /bin/sh... (2 Replies)
Hi
i am new to this admin area .
i have created user with name as "ab" and gave home dir as /home/ab .
when i tried to create the /home/ab dir , i got he following error.
"mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/ab"; Operation not applicable
"
Thanks in advance . (1 Reply)
It is required to rename the home dir of some users specifed in the file ids.csv. But the code is not working as expected.
ids.csv have content in the format
id1,name,id2
It displays the expected message , still it is unable to rename the dirs
Find the code below:
#!/bin/ksh... (3 Replies)
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qmail-getpw
qmail-getpw(8) System Manager's Manual qmail-getpw(8)NAME
qmail-getpw - give addresses to users
SYNOPSIS
qmail-getpw local
DESCRIPTION
In qmail, each user controls a vast array of local addresses. qmail-getpw finds the user that controls a particular address, local. It
prints six pieces of information, each terminated by NUL: user; uid; gid; homedir; dash; and ext. The user's account name is user; the
user's uid and gid in decimal are uid and gid; the user's home directory is homedir; and messages to local will be handled by home-
dir/.qmaildashext.
In case of trouble, qmail-getpw exits nonzero without printing anything.
WARNING: The operating system's getpwnam function, which is at the heart of qmail-getpw, is inherently unreliable: it fails to distinguish
between temporary errors and nonexistent users. Future versions of getpwnam should return ETXTBSY to indicate temporary errors and ESRCH
to indicate nonexistent users.
RULES
qmail-getpw considers an account in /etc/passwd to be a user if (1) the account has a nonzero uid, (2) the account's home directory exists
(and is visible to qmail-getpw), and (3) the account owns its home directory. qmail-getpw ignores account names containing uppercase let-
ters. qmail-getpw also assumes that all account names are shorter than 32 characters.
qmail-getpw gives each user control over the basic user address and all addresses of the form user-anything. When local is user, dash and
ext are both empty. When local is user-anything, dash is a hyphen and ext is anything. user may appear in any combination of uppercase
and lowercase letters at the front of local.
A catch-all user, alias, controls all other addresses. In this case ext is local and dash is a hyphen.
You can override all of qmail-getpw's decisions with the qmail-users mechanism, which is reliable, highly configurable, and much faster
than qmail-getpw.
SEE ALSO qmail-users(5), qmail-lspawn(8)qmail-getpw(8)