Hi,

Admin is not my main job but I have to administer a computing servers for the students in my lab. I am in the middle of a linux course so I am still learning.

Right now I have encounter this problem whereby I have created a user using the command adduser and also the passwd. But after creating the user account, the /home is not created. How do I rectify this problem?

Many thanks for the kind help

Hi,

You need to provide the -m and -d /home/username options.

I.e:

adduser -c "Comment goes here" -m -d /home/userX -s /bin/bash userX

If this user needs to belong to a specific group add: -g groupname
If this user needs to have a specific uid add: -u uid

Also: Have a look at the adduser/useradd manpage.

Hope this helps.

Hello and welcome to LinuxQuestions,

Are you sure you used the adduser command? If I'm not mistaking this command creates the user directory /home/<username>. Maybe you've used the useradd instead which does not create it by default.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi,

Welcome to LQ!

Others have answered about your creation of accounts issues but look at the 'RUTE' in the below links to aid you in the future.

I would suggest that you look at some of the other links;

Linux Documentation Project
Rute Tutorial & Exposition
Linux Command Guide
Utimate Linux Newbie Guide
LinuxSelfHelp
Getting Started with Linux
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

These links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!

Thanks for the help.
I did some experimenting since I have root access.
I used both 'useradd' and 'adduser' command to create a new account and when I check /etc/passwd, it show that the default is /export/home/user not /home/user. Question is where to find the default for creating the home directory?

And when I used to newly created user to login, the ssh script ran but it could not chdir to /home/user/.ncbirc saying that 'no such file or directory'. The next line said that 'mkdir: cannot create directory /home/user and saying 'no such directory'.

Then there is this error message: ERROR: Unknown switch ''. Accepted values: ia32, intel64, ia64. So could this be the problem, the switch configuration? Co-incindentally we just got a new Dell managed switch as the old one just conked tripping the whole rack.

Any help and inputs are much appreciated

The adduser man page indicates that the defaults are set it /etc/adduser.conf

What "ssh script"? And why did it run? How did you login?

This seems to be a bug in a script. Maybe this is the "ssh script" that you mentioned earlier. Anyway, there are bound to be problems if the users home directory is not set up properly. Please fix that first then we can move on to your mysterious "ssh script".

Cheers,

Evo2.