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Old 04-27-2014
New user in bash mode
when I created user and use su - username then its prompt come in bash mode

Code:
[root@nn ~]# su - uusr
-bash-4.1$

What is this bash mode .

this also show

Code:
-bash-4.1$ touch filename
touch: cannot touch `filename': Permission denied

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# 2  
Old 04-27-2014
How did you create the new user uusr?

After you su to uusr, what is the output from the commands:
Code:
id
ls -ld ~

# 3  
Old 04-27-2014
It looks fine now . I dropped the user and recreated then looks fine for me

Don't know what was the problem . Overall issue is rectified ..
 
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