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Operating Systems HP-UX [Solved] Unable to change/create home dir for particular user Post 302702299 by fretagi on Tuesday 18th of September 2012 05:35:34 AM
Old 09-18-2012
[Solved] Unable to change/create home dir for particular user
Hi all

I wanted to change the home dir for a user, but when using smh :

Code:
 SMH->Accounts for Users and Groups->Local Users->Modify User
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Required Field

*Login Name                    :  ictprod____________

User ID                       :  115________________
Allow duplicate User ID       : No ->

Primary Group                 :  users______________
[ Change Primary Group ]

Home Directory                :  /data/ICTPRD/bmd1__
Create Home Directory         : No ->

Start-Up Program Options      :   (X) Select Start-Up Program
                                  ( ) Specify Start-Up Program
Start-Up Program              : /sbin/sh ->

Comments                      :  ___________________
                                (Real Name, Location, Phone, Home Phone)

Password Options              : No Restrictions (Normal Behavior) ->

[ Modify ] [ Preview ] [ Cancel ] [ Help ]

Then when clicking on modify, I got:

Code:
'/data/ICTPRD/bmd1' is not a valid directory
Command Unsuccessful
press enter Key to continue

Please can you tell me what I am doing wrong?


FR
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

xdg-user-dir

xdg-user-dir(1) 						   User Commands						   xdg-user-dir(1)

NAME

       xdg-user-dir - Get the path used for desktop user directory location.

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-user-dir DIR

DESCRIPTION

       xdg-user-dir is a utility that extracts the location of the specified desktop user directory from the file :

	   ${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs

OPERANDS

       Valid desktop directories (DIR) are:

	       DESKTOP
	       DOWNLOAD
	       TEMPLATES
	       PUBLICSHARE
	       DOCUMENTS
	       MUSIC
	       PICTURES
	       VIDEOS

       If an invalid directory is requested ${HOME} is returned.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

	   HOME.

       Other environment variable that are used are:

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME

	   Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/xdg-user-dir

	   XDG Directory expansion utility.

       ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs

	   Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Location of user's documents directory

       % xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS

       /home/user/Documents

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWxdg-user-dirs 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       More information can be found at:

       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

       xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008

SunOS 5.11							    03 Apr 2008 						   xdg-user-dir(1)
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