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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
Last edited by amirzkria; 02-04-2006 at 06:40 AM.
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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
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
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:
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:
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useradd: cannot create directory /home/
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