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Operating Systems Solaris Create New Group/User/Password in S10 Post 302653855 by Showflash on Sunday 10th of June 2012 09:54:03 PM
Old 06-10-2012
Create New Group/User/Password in S10
I have performed the following with lower case group and usernames and the only difference is that the error message under groupadd goes away, yet I am still unable to successfully add a user WITH a home directory.

This is in Solaris 10. I am able to add a group, add a user, add the users password but I am unable to create the users home directory, and hence login using "su - Object" cannot be done. I've already proved that using a lower case group and username is the issue. The following is a script that I ran:

Code:
Script started on Sun Jun 10 19:51:23 2012

#
# /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1001 Object
UX: groupadd: Object name should be all lower case or numeric.
#
# tail -2 /etc/group
nogroup::65534:
Object::1001:
# 
# useradd -D
group=other,1  project=default,3  basedir=/home  
skel=/etc/skel  shell=/bin/sh  inactive=0  
expire=  auths=  profiles=  roles=  limitpriv=  
defaultpriv=  lock_after_retries=  
# 
# useradd -d /home/Object -g 1001 -m -u 1001 -s /bin/sh Object
cp: /home/Object: Operation not applicable
chown: /home/Object: No such file or directory
# 
# passwd Object
New Password: 
Re-enter new Password: 
passwd: password successfully changed for Object
# 
# tail -2 /etc/passwd
nobody4:x:65534:65534:SunOS 4.x NFS Anonymous Access User:/:
Object:x:1001:1001::/home/Object:/bin/sh
# 
# tail -2 /etc/shadow
nobody4:*LK*:6445::::::
Object:Bns3nXhBf5ju.:15502::::::
# 
# su - Object
su: No directory!
# 
# ls -al /home
total 3
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Jun 10 13:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  39 root     root        1024 Jun 10 18:52 ..
# 
# pwd
/home
# 
# whoami
root
# 
# mkdir /home/Object
mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/Object"; Operation not applicable
# 
# ls -al /home
total 3
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Jun 10 13:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  39 root     root        1024 Jun 10 18:52 ..
# 
# exit
#
script done on Sun Jun 10 19:56:44 2012

Thanks!

---------- Post updated at 08:26 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:15 PM ----------

I logged out and tried to log in to the Solaris 10 graphical interface using user Object and the system will not allow the user to log in. It fails when it goes to switch to the desktop.

---------- Post updated at 08:54 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:26 PM ----------

Well, after poking around on the Internet I figured out how to create the "home" directory for a user so that the user could log in but the directory is not located at

Code:
 /home/<username>

it is located at
Code:
/export/home/<username>

so now Solaris has me wondering what /home is for? Is it just a mount point? Must be....

Thanks in any case!
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

groupadd

groupadd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      groupadd(1M)

NAME

       groupadd - add (create) a new group definition on the system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/groupadd [ -g gid [-o]] group

DESCRIPTION

       The groupadd command creates a new group definition on the system by adding the appropriate entry to the /etc/group file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -g gid	Assigns  the  group  id  gid  for  the	new group. This group id must be a non-negative decimal integer below MAXUID as defined in
		/usr/include/sys/param.h. The group ID defaults to the next available (unique) number above the highest number currently assigned.
		For  example,  if  groups   100, 105, and  200 are assigned as groups, the next default group number will be  201. (Group IDs from
		0-99 are reserved by SunOS for future applications.)

       -o	Allows the gid to be duplicated (non-unique).

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       group	A string consisting of characters from the set of lower case alphabetic characters and numeric characters. A warning message  will
		be  written  if  the  string  exceeds MAXGLEN, which is usually set at eight characters. The group field must contain at least one
		character; it accepts lower case or numeric characters or a combination of both, and must not contain a colon  (:) or  NEWLINE.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       2	Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the groupadd command is displayed.

       3	An invalid argument was provided to an option.

       4	The gid is not unique (when  -o option is not used).

       9	The group is not unique.

       10	The  /etc/group file cannot be updated.

FILES

       /etc/group

       /usr/include/userdefs.h

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       users(1B), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), grpck(1M), logins(1M), pwck(1M), useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), group(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       groupadd only adds a group definition to the local system. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used  to  supplement  the
       local  /etc/group  file with additional entries, groupadd cannot change information supplied by the network name service. However, groupadd
       will verify the uniqueness of group name and group ID against the external name service.

SunOS 5.10							    27 Mar 1998 						      groupadd(1M)
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