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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Fedora 19 "useradd" failure, GUI success Post 302866333 by jjinno on Monday 21st of October 2013 07:48:28 PM
Old 10-21-2013
SOLVED: Fedora 19 "useradd" failure, GUI success

Hey guys/gals,

I have a Fedora 19 box with a 26TB RAID set mounted as my home directory
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# mount|grep home
/dev/md0 on /home type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,logbsize=128k,sunit=256,swidth=3584,noquota)

I have been able to add/modify user accounts using VNC + system-config-users... however, when I try to do just a simple "useradd test" I get the following:
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# useradd test
useradd: cannot create directory /home/test

As for permissions, please remember that I can already *successfully* add users via the GUI... but just for completeness:
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# ls -lad /home
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Oct 21 16:20 /home
[root@localhost ~]# ls -la /home/deleteme
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct 21 16:42 /home/deleteme
[root@localhost ~]# mkdir /home/test
[root@localhost ~]# ls -lad /home/test/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Oct 21 16:42 /home/test/
[root@localhost ~]# rm -rf /home/deleteme /home/test
[root@localhost ~]# useradd test
useradd: cannot create directory /home/test

Am I crazy/old, or did they perhaps change the user addition process without telling me? Smilie

Last edited by jjinno; 10-22-2013 at 06:46 PM.. Reason: Problem Solved
 

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.K5LOGIN(5)							File Formats Manual						       .K5LOGIN(5)

NAME
.k5login - Kerberos V5 acl file for host access. DESCRIPTION
The .k5login file, which resides in a user's home directory, contains a list of the Kerberos principals. Anyone with valid tickets for a principal in the file is allowed host access with the UID of the user in whose home directory the file resides. One common use is to place a .k5login file in root's home directory, thereby granting system administrators remote root access to the host via Kerberos. EXAMPLES
Suppose the user "alice" had a .k5login file in her home directory containing the following line: bob@FUBAR.ORG This would allow "bob" to use any of the Kerberos network applications, such as telnet(1), rlogin(1), rsh(1), and rcp(1), to access alice's account, using bob's Kerberos tickets. Let us further suppose that "alice" is a system administrator. Alice and the other system administrators would have their principals in root's .k5login file on each host: alice@BLEEP.COM joeadmin/root@BLEEP.COM This would allow either system administrator to log in to these hosts using their Kerberos tickets instead of having to type the root pass- word. Note that because "bob" retains the Kerberos tickets for his own principal, "bob@FUBAR.ORG", he would not have any of the privileges that require alice's tickets, such as root access to any of the site's hosts, or the ability to change alice's password. SEE ALSO
telnet(1), rlogin(1), rsh(1), rcp(1), ksu(1), telnetd(8), klogind(8) .K5LOGIN(5)
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