home directory under a home directory
 

I'm trying to create a home directory under a home directory.
Is it possible?


Example:

LOGIN AS ROOT

existing directory: /home/qp

mkdir /home/qp/gess

useradd gess -d /home/qp/gess -p password

chown gess /home/qp/gess

chmod 775 /home/qp/gess


...then when I log in as gess it says I do not have permission to access /home/qp/gess.

Any clues?

If they have "x" attribute on all above directories, then yes. Make sure you just give it X on the directory, so:
chmod a+x /home/qp
would add that attribute, then give the user permission to access that directory, and in turn, access the home directory within it.

AFAIK

Cool

Thank you so much. It worked perfectly, MasterC.

Cool, you're welcome. :)

Cool

Question (Out of curiosity): Why would you want to do this?