For some reason I've not been able to discern, when I add me as a user to the netbook it looks OK until I log in. Then I get the message that 'no directory, logging in with HOME=/'.

The useradd command I use is
useradd -m -d /home/rshepard -u 1000 -g 100 -s /bin/bash rshepard

The /home/ directory contains ftp/, lost+found/, and rshepard/. The first two are owned by root.root, the last by rshepard.users. /etc/passwd has the line 'rshepard:x:1000:100::/home/rshepard:/bin/bash' and group 100 is 'users'. As root, the password for rshepard is created and works to log in.

There's nothing I see in the useradd man page or my Web searches that explains why this time I cannot log in to /home/rshepard/ on the netbook. Prior to my negligent error of wiping out /etc/ the same command worked as it's supposed to work and when I log in as a user it's in /home/rshepard/.

I've no idea where to look for a solution since everything appears correct but it's just not working.

Your thoughts are needed.

Re-partitioning the hard drive with cfdisk and re-installing 14.1 resolved this issue. Now to resolve the numlock light ...

Rich

Not that I'm thinking this would've made any difference, but it is much easier to use Slackware's adduser script. It allows you to easily add the new user to the various suggested groups like audio,video,printers,plugdev,etc and to set up the user's home directory and other information.