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02-04-2006, 06:38 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
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useradd: cannot create directory /home/
I am login as root and when I want to add new user aymna, the message came out
"useradd: cannot create directory /home/ayman"
what can i do , I am using RHEL 3.
Amir Mohammed Abdalla
Network administrator
00249912616158
E.mail: amirzkria2@yahoo.com
Last edited by amirzkria; 02-04-2006 at 06:40 AM.
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02-04-2006, 06:40 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2004
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I am login as root and when I want to add new user aymna, the message came out
"useradd: cannot create directory /home/ayman"
what can i do , I am using RHEL 3.
Amir Mohammed Abdalla
Network administrator
00249912616158
E.mail: amirzkria2@yahoo.com |
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02-05-2006, 08:37 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Szczecin, Poland
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian
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Nor really a Networking problem..
Moved to RedHat Forum..
Last edited by peter_robb; 02-05-2006 at 08:38 AM.
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02-06-2006, 01:32 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2004
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Hi everyone
"useradd: cannot create directory /home/ayman" solve
the reason was rhe autofs deamon was mount on the /home directory and this was hide my /home directory, when i stop the autofs service and mount -a the /home directory was appeare and every think work fine.
best regares
Amir Mohammed Abdalla
Network administrator
00249912616158
E.mail: amirzkria2@yahoo.com |
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2 members found this post helpful.
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05-17-2011, 02:52 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2006
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CentOS 5.5
I had a similar issue where the home directory could not be created when creating new users. In my case it was a box where I was playing with nfs mounts at an earlier point in time and due to that, issues were showing up now with creating users.
In my case, I had old crap in these files pointing to nfs mounts:
/etc/auto.master
/etc/auto.home
stop and start autofs service
/etc/init.d
service autofs stop | start
mount -a
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08-07-2014, 09:11 AM
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LQ Newbie
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Possible Fix
I would check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Most likely you have a setting that is causing your issue with creating the home directory. If the setting are not correct, it can prevent you from creating a home directory for your user. Here is a functional nsswitch.conf that is using Winbind to authenticate:
passwd: files winbind
shadow: files winbind
group: files winbind
hosts: files dns winbind
bootparams: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files winbind
networks: files winbind
protocols: files winbind
rpc: files winbind
services: files winbind
netgroup: files
publickey: files winbind
automount: files winbind
aliases: files winbind
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