Adding a user

Joecks · 02-09-2007, 01:50 AM

Hi,

Topic should be : Adding a users in Nexenta.... sorry
I have a problem and i can't figure out why it is happening.....

I have figured out that the home dirs are not /home but /export/home.

I want to add a user with "administration - users and groups" but i cant set the home directory to /export/home/user , everytime it is set back to /home/user

When i try the command adduser , i get this :

Creating home directory `/home/user'.
couldn't create /home/user: Operation not applicable

Greetings,

Joecks

jlliagre · 02-09-2007, 04:04 AM

Post your full useradd command.

Joecks · 02-09-2007, 06:49 AM

Hi,

I am not at home now, i will post it on monday when i am back again..

Thanks;

Joecks

Dox Systems - Brian · 02-09-2007, 07:45 AM

What's Nexenta?

My understanding is that it should be /home... The user's dir is mounted from /export/home onto /home on login in Solaris.

jlliagre · 02-09-2007, 08:46 AM

Nexenta, also known as Gnu/Solaris, is an opensolaris based distribution.

It is true home directories living in /home are by default automounted, but there are some configuration steps for that to work.

abs_77 · 02-10-2007, 02:31 AM

/etc/auto_master comment out # /home

svcadm disable system/filesystem/autofs:default

mkdir –p /home/yourname
chown yourname /home/yourname

jlliagre · 02-10-2007, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abs_77

/etc/auto_master comment out # /home

svcadm disable system/filesystem/autofs:default

Yes, disabling home automounting is also a solution, although it breaks a useful feature.

If you comment out /home in auto_master, there is no need to disable autofs service as you may want to keep automounting "/net".

Joecks · 02-11-2007, 01:52 AM

Thank you all for the answers.. I will try out your solutions when i am back home... thanks again !

Greetings,

Joecks

Joecks · 02-12-2007, 01:48 PM

I disabled automounting of /home , now it works ...

Thanks All....

Joecks

LAN-Dominator.nl · 03-03-2007, 11:10 AM

Okay i got a question about, how to add a User..

i added a user, but how do i make the user as admin?

jlliagre · 03-03-2007, 02:31 PM

With Solaris, you can grant this user some or all privileges.

Start by reading the privileges, user_attr and usermod manual pages.

Here is an example on how to grant the "foo" user the right to read any file, whatever the permissions:

Code:

$ id
uid=100000(foo) gid=100000
$ ls -l /etc/shadow
-r--------   1 root     sys          427 Mar  3 21:02 /etc/shadow
$ grep foo /etc/shadow
grep: can't open /etc/shadow
$ su
Password: ********
# usermod -K defaultpriv=basic,file_dac_read foo
# su - foo
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.11      snv_54  October 2007
$ id
uid=100000(foo) gid=100000
$ grep foo /etc/shadow
foo:nMTsULrp/ZtgU:13575::::::
$