Useradd not creating home directory when creating newuser
 

When we are using useradd to create new user accounts in Ubuntu we are not getting a home directory created at time of creation or the home directory is not accessible.

Any help would be really appreciated.

With useradd you have to manualy enter the home directory to be created. If none is specified, none is created. Read 'man useradd' for more information.
Try using adduser. It's a bit more user friendly, sudo adduser <username>. That automaticly adds directory and ask you for password, realname etc.

Could you describe your exact procedure in more detail? It's not too hard to correct the problems you're reporting, but maybe there's something even easier to correct...

M.

Edit:
Okay, Dinithion's tip's doing the trick anyway, so there's no need for a follow-up - well, if it works, anyway... (I hope there's nothing else going wrong).

if you give the -m flag, useradd will take care of creating the home directory for you.

instead of doing:

useradd <username>

do


useradd -m <username>



Btw... if you want to deleate a user (say, to try again) just deleate their entire line form /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow


Good luck :)



For more detail, see


man useradd

Thanks for the ideas I will get on them in the AM
 

I will have several more questions later I am sure. You folks are great. I will let you know how it goes.