I installed Solaris 10 (8/11) and added an account for myself. It lives in

Code:

/export/home/{name}

but /etc/passwd shows it is

Code:

/home/{name}

where it seems to be mounted like a filesystem. I tried to
create another account from the command line but it doesn't work the same way.
I can't find anything in the man page for useradd to duplicate this
functionality nor does a search on the internet show anyone else who has made it
work.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Edward Hooper

---------- Post updated at 04:04 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:20 PM ----------

Looks like I get to answer my own question because I did another search and, finally, found the solution.

Create the user account as usual in

Code:

 /export/home:useradd -u <userid> -g <groupid> -m -s <shell> -d \ /export/home/<name> <name>

Then modify the home directory location:

Code:

usermod -d /home/<name> <name>

Add a line to /etc/auto_home so it gets mounted when the user logs in:

Code:

<name> 127.0.0.1:/export/home/<name>

And lastly, just to make certain it all works:

Code:

svcadm enable autofs

And that seems to work for me. I did notice that after the users log out the home directories are unmounted. Well, most of them. The account created at startup stays mounted even after I log out so there is something I'm missing. If anyone knows please let me know.