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Old 03-29-2011
Could not chdir to home directory

Hi all,

I just got an account created on a Linux box. When I log in, I got the error message " Could not chdir to home directory /home/yyyy : No such file or directory". When I checked the /etc/passwd file, I could see that my home directory is there. i thought when the account is created the home directory is automatically created. but, it looks like not. Do I have to try to create my home directory? How can we explain that?

Thanks,
 

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