unable to creat system user

mbanwi · 08-18-2009, 04:17 AM

hi,i use centos5, lately i notice that when i add a new user withthe useradd and passwd command, and then try to login using this new account, am being prompted with a message,saying ' you cannot access /home/newuser. that the account doesnot have permission on his home directory. i have even tried go give the user(john) ownership over his home directory with the
#chown -R john:john /home/john
but not still working. please can anyone help

centosboy · 08-18-2009, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbanwi

hi,i use centos5, lately i notice that when i add a new user withthe useradd and passwd command, and then try to login using this new account, am being prompted with a message,saying ' you cannot access /home/newuser. that the account doesnot have permission on his home directory. i have even tried go give the user(john) ownership over his home directory with the
#chown -R john:john /home/john
but not still working. please can anyone help

paste the output of

Code:

ls -ld /home/john

here

mbanwi · 08-19-2009, 05:22 AM

this is the output. before i forget, the user is norbert rather than john.

[root@appdev ~]# ls -ld /home/norbert
drwx------ 4 norbert norbert 4096 Aug 18 11:22 /home/norbert

chrism01 · 08-19-2009, 07:03 PM

Also post the relevant entry in /etc/passwd

mbanwi · 08-20-2009, 02:32 AM

here is it:

norbert:x:519:520::/home/norbert:/sbin/nologin

centosboy · 08-20-2009, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbanwi

here is it:

norbert:x:519:520::/home/norbert:/sbin/nologin

looks like norbert might have an incorrect group id.

if you check 520 in /etc/group you will see who is the group owner.
what you need to do here is change norberts gid which is currently 520 to 519.

in /etc/group, change norberts gid to 519
in /etc/passwd change norberts gid 519

and

chown -R norbert.norbert /home/norbert

should solve the problem.

chrism01 · 08-20-2009, 08:54 PM

Can I just point out that the 'login shell' in the passwd rec is set to /sbin/nologin(!!)

mbanwi · 08-21-2009, 06:52 AM

hi
there is another user with gid of 19.so i have rather changed the user id from 19 to 20 also
and then used the #chown -R norbert.norbert /home/norbert.
but it's giving this message below:

could not chdir to home directory /home/norbert: permission denied
this account is currently not available

linuxlover.chaitanya · 08-21-2009, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbanwi

here is it:

norbert:x:519:520::/home/norbert:/sbin/nologin

Does not it look like unusual.

It should be

chaitanya:x:1000:1000:chaitanya,,,:/home/chaitanya:/bin/bash