1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

The home directory for me on my system is on /home/kwon. It was created using "useradd kwon" When i go to change the home directory for a user doing a usermod -d /home/test when they log on it gives them messages saying to generate new ssh keys, and it does. It gives me a thing that says... (1 Reply)

2. Solaris

Hi, I managed to install openssh from source on my home directory on a server I don't have root access to. I had problems with privilege separation because of permissions initially so I disabled it in sshd_config. But when I run sshd from where I installed it by doing ~/local/sbin/sshd, nothing at... (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I would like to know how to find out the home directory of a particular user.. eg, If am the root , then my Home directory will be / if say am just a user logging into the terminal then my home dir would change, so accordingly i would like to know how to find it out... I know that... (7 Replies)

4. Solaris

Hi, I've created solaris user which has both FTP and SFTP Access. Using the "ftpaccess" configuration file options "guest-root" and "restricted-uid", i can restrict the user to a specific directory. But I'm unable to restrict the user when the user is logged in using SFTP. The aim is to... (1 Reply)

5. Red Hat

Hi, By default user's home directory will be /home/$user. I want to change it to /javauser/$user. How can I do it? Thanks Jeevan. (5 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hello all, I am Installing Oracle 11g on my Solaris OS. I created the below oracle user: # /usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle but when i am trying to to su - oracle it give me the below error No directory Do i have to setup a home directory for oracle user? and how can i do... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I found this old closed thread: I can do these things, but how to I change someone's profile - where do I find the profile? I'm running Centos 5.6 ~~~~~~~~~ providing you have the password shell set to ksh, you can put this in his .profile: cd /opt/load alias -x cd=: (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to create Oracle user. I will install oracle after that. But my problem is /home/oracle directory is not being created. bash-3.2# useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -d /home/oracle -m oracle cp: /home/oracle: Operation not applicable chown: /home/oracle: No such file or directory ... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi , :wall: I've in directory home user 3 file with blank space in name file, I would like erase the all character that no have alphanum more dot in namefile from home root , below the script. If I execute the shell script from directory where stay it's execute well done.But I would like... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Good Afternoon, I'm trying userdel -r username on Solaris 9 and getting UX: userdel: ERROR: unable to find status about home directory: No such file or directory I see the user's home directory and getent passwd shows the user Anybody know what's causing it? (2 Replies)