06-30-2012
Is there an automounter running?
What Solaris platform and version is this?
This sounds familiar but I haven't come across it recently so you may get more informed replies to you post.
I think the 'adduser' script tries to create the new users home directory first and if there's an automounter in use, it is denied permission to do that. The adduser script then aborts and doesn't complete (ie, do the other necessary stuff).
I would try to create the new users home directory yourself and include in the automounter 'home' directories file, and when that's done, run adduser again without the -d switch.
Hope that helps.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
deluser.conf
deluser.conf(5) File Formats Manual deluser.conf(5)
NAME
/etc/deluser.conf - configuration file for deluser(8) and delgroup(8).
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/deluser.conf contains defaults for the programs deluser(8) and delgroup(8). Each option takes the form option = value. Dou-
ble or single quotes are allowed around the value. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) at the beginning of the line.
deluser(8) and delgroup(8) also read /etc/adduser.conf, see adduser.conf(8); settings in deluser.conf may overwrite settings made in
adduser.conf.
The valid configuration options are:
REMOVE_HOME
Removes the home directory and mail spool of the user to be removed. Value may be 0 (don't delete) or 1 (do delete).
REMOVE_ALL_FILES
Removes all files on the system owned by the user to be removed. If this option is activated REMOVE_HOME has no effect. Values may
be 0 or 1.
BACKUP If REMOVE_HOME or REMOVE_ALL_FILES is activated all files are backuped before they are removed. The backup file that is created
defaults to username.tar(.gz|.bz2) in the directory specified by the BACKUP_TO option. The compression method is chosen to the best
that is available. Values may be 0 or 1.
BACKUP_TO
If BACKUP is activated, BACKUP_TO specifies the directory the backup is written to. Default is the current directory.
NO_DEL_PATHS
A list of regular expressions, space separated. All files to be deleted in course of deleting home directories or deleting files
owned by the user to be deleted are checked against each of these regular expressions. If a match is detected, the file is not
deleted. Defaults to a list of system directories, leaving only /home.
In other words: By default only files below /home belonging to that specific user are going to be deleted.
ONLY_IF_EMPTY
Only delete a group if there are no user who belong to this group. Defaults to 0.
EXCLUDE_FSTYPES
A regular expression which describes all file systems which should be excluded when looking for files of a user to be deleted.
Defaults to "(proc|sysfs|usbfs|devpts|tmpfs|afs)".
FILES
/etc/deluser.conf
SEE ALSO
deluser(8), delgroup(8), adduser.conf(5)
Debian GNU/Linux Version 3.113+nmu3 deluser.conf(5)