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# 1  
Old 04-20-2011
Unable to create user in linux
Hi

Code:
 
[ankkhura@xyz/]$ uname -a
Linux xyz 2.6.18-128.0.0.0.2.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 05:17:33 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


I am unable to add a new user getting following

Code:
[root@xyz~]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),1024(txtdba),1235(txtdba7),9045(dba_jh)
[root@xyz~]# useradd ank
useradd: cannot create directory /home/ank

If i go to / and do ls -altr i can see the home directory is there but 0 Bytes.

Code:
[root@xyz/]# pwd
/
[root@xyz/]# ls -altr
total 244
drwxrwxrwx   2 root root   4096 Dec  4  2002 ade
drwxr-xr-x  28 root root   4096 Dec  6  2002 var
drwxrwxrwx  14 root root   4096 Feb 13  2004 scratch
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr  3  2004 ade_autofs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jun  5  2007 .automount
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root   4096 Sep 11  2007 usr
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jan  9  2009 srv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jan  9  2009 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jan 21  2009 misc
drwx------   2 root root  16384 Mar 30 19:27 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  12288 Mar 30 21:16 lib64
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   4096 Mar 30 21:16 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 30 21:16 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  12288 Mar 30 21:16 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      0 Mar 30 21:19 net
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 30 23:27 selinux
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar 30 23:49 tftpboot
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root games    28 Mar 30 23:59 OracleProd -> /usr/local/redhat/OracleProd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root games    18 Mar 30 23:59 oracle -> /OracleProd/oracle
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:01 LOCAL_SWAP
drwxr-x---   3 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:01 root
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:02 boot
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:02 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:02 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 171 root root      0 Mar 31 00:07 proc
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root      0 Mar 31 00:07 sys
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      0 Mar 31 00:08 .autorelabel
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      0 Mar 31 00:08 .autofsck
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      0 Mar 31 00:08 home
-rw-------   1 root root   1024 Mar 31 00:09 .rnd
drwxr-xr-x  30 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x  30 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root   3860 Mar 31 00:09 dev
drwxrwxrwt   5 root root   4096 Apr 20 04:02 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 143 root root  12288 Apr 20 12:40 etc

Does that make a differnece
# 2  
Old 04-20-2011
From the directory listing you supplied, it looks like users home directories may be automounted. Is this computer one of a network of computers running NIS or suchlike? Are other users listed in /etc/passwd?
# 3  
Old 04-20-2011
Well It's a fresh VM given to me for oracle installation. And I do not see any user created manually in /etc/passwd. How do i make sure if /home is auto mounted? I do have root password.


Thanks in advance.
Ankurk
# 4  
Old 04-20-2011
what about stopping autofs and then try to create the user account.
# 5  
Old 04-21-2011
Hi My auto.master file shows this

Code:
/home yp:auto_home_adc tcp,intr,timeo=1380,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,retrans=2

What does that mean?
# 6  
Old 04-21-2011
It means that the /home directories are NFS mounted. Check if there is a system on your network called yp.

By the way, if you do not need to have NIS and autofs running, you can just stop those services and configure the system to use local authentication (files) and home directories.
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