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Old 06-12-2007
solaris 10 /home

What gives?

# chmod 777 home
chmod: WARNING: can't change home
#


after I installed solaris 10, /home isnt writetable by anyone, when I try and change the perms as root, i get the above error. Anyone seen this before?
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Old 06-12-2007
Before doing chmod try:

# svcadm disable -t autofs

Last edited by solfreak; 06-12-2007 at 04:36 PM..
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Old 06-13-2008
thanks budy ; this was reallu pissing me off
found that on /etc/auto_master there is a line for the /home directory
/home auto_home -nobrowse
i just commented it and restarted autofs
thanks again for the tip
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