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# 1  
Old 10-15-2008
Adding user
Hello All,

New to Solaris, I added a new user by cmd " useradd -d /export/home/username -m username " but wondered when I tried to login with this new username, It doesn't automatically redirect to the user's home folder. Can anyone suggest about this?
# 2  
Old 10-15-2008
does the directory "username" exist?
# 3  
Old 10-15-2008
Yes, the directory is being created after running useradd command.
# 4  
Old 10-15-2008
Got the solution. I was not running " su - user " to login . I was just running " su user ". By the way, thanks for reply.
# 5  
Old 10-15-2008
It should. What is your current directory after login as username ?

Any error message ? Can you check the home directory has been correctly created ?

Code:
ls -la /export/home/username

Edit: Hmm, I was too slow ...
# 6  
Old 10-15-2008
After logging with " su username " it was redirecting to "/ ".
Other question : how to add a hostname?
when I run command " hostname " , got reply
unknown

I think no name was given to this system. I tried to edit the file /etc/hosts, but it is showing read only file. Any idea?

Hope, you will help .
# 7  
Old 10-16-2008
What's the result for
Code:
#more /etc/hostname.[NIC]

If you cannot perform the command so there's no file called /etc/hostname.[NIC]

You can create the file using vi

Code:
#vi /etc/hostname.[NIC]

enter the desired hostname
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