useradd not creating home directory
 

I have searched google, these threads and read the useradd man page, but I am still having issues with creating a user and getting their home directory created at the same time.

This is on Solaris 10 64 bit SPARC.

Command I am running as root
I am getting this error
I tried making the /home directory write-able as its currently only readable, but that did not work either, and gave the following error
Ideas?

I am in no way a Solaris expert, but I am fairly competent in CentOS and Fedora... where the useradd command has worked for me in the past.

Hi

I believe all you need is:

useradd -m -s /bin/bash username

you can also add the -G option if you know the groups you want for this user...

Good luck.

Nope.. that gives me the same error about not being able to create the users directory.. Operation not applicable...

I think it has to do with the /home directory not being writeable, and me not being able to change it, even as root.

Yeah, that should be enough to create a user with its home directory and bash as a default shell.
What permissions do you have on /home?

btw,
1. could you post the exact output from your shell?
2. have you tried doing the same with adduser?

Is /home a local directory on the computer, or is it a network mounted directory? If it's a network mounted directory you need root permissions on the server where the home directory resist.

In Solaris you cannot use /home. It is used by automounter. Just use /export/home/<username> and you are fine...

Yeah... that seems to be what resolves this issue. I didnt know that i couldnt use /home Solaris. using /export/home is working.