07-20-2009
I think there is no term in UNIX slang like "UK directory". Never heared.
By what do you want to automatically create them? By a list or... ?
On Linux useradd does not automatically create a homedirectory. adduser does that. mkuser on AIX can automatically creaty a home directory too.
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