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Operating Systems Solaris Can't create users in /home Post 302164296 by sdspawankumar on Monday 4th of February 2008 11:13:00 AM
Old 02-04-2008
Can't create users in /home

Hi Friends,,

I installed solaris 10 in vmware just now.I got a simple problem while i want to create users in /home directory.It is saying "cannot create ".So i checked the permission and then i find that the perm to user(root) is r-x.So i tried to change it to rwx using chmod but again i got a warning "can't change /home".

I didn't get why i am not able to change even as root.Then i checked,,Is there any other directories with same permissions.Then i found vol,proc,net,home are the directories which have r-x perm's.So i tried to change the remaining ,,then /proc and /net also didn't get changed but /vol got changed to rwx.

The major part i noticed is,, for all these directories the usename 'n' groupname is root ..I am trying to create files in home because,, in my previous installations i had done that and i suceeded.I didn't get this problem before.

The problem seems to be simple but i am not able to solve...
Can anyone help in this issue...
 

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createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME
createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer. SYNOPSIS
createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username] DESCRIPTION
createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories. OPTIONS
-s creates home directories for server home paths only (default). -c creates home directories for local home paths only. -b creates home directories for both server and local home paths. -a creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path. -l creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain. -L causes the created home directory to be localized. -n directoryDomainName creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path. -u username creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a, -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed. -i reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line. -h usage help. FILES
/usr/sbin/createhomedir location of tool CAVEATS
When using the -a option, search limits of various directory servers (such as Open Directory or Active Directory) can prevent all possible home directories from being created. In this case, you may need to specify the usernames explicitly. Mac OS X May 31, 2019 Mac OS X
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