From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 20 14:12:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26433 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwembaz0001.honeywell.com (hwembaz0001.cas.honeywell.com [129.239.10.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26427 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com) Received: by hwembaz0001.Honeywell.COM with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:12:10 -0700 Message-ID: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD98C@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> From: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Problems creating new users Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:12:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've tried creating new users with the adduser program. At first I had created a directory called /usr/home and then made a symlink /home in the root dir. I then created new users pointing to /home as the home dir. All dirs were created and files were placed in. I had also created a new group in /etc/group called home. When I tried loging in as any of the users, I got a message saying that the user didn't have a home dir and was defaulting to the root dir. It also gave me this error message (I had afterwards removed the symlink and pointed everyone's home dir to /usr/home): login: _secure_path: cannot stat /usr/home//.login.conf: permission denied. Anyone know what this error means? I changed all the perms all the way to the user's home dirs to belong to group home, and gave rwx privs to the group for the dirs. I thougt this would give them permission to their home dir but the error message remained. This caught me completely off guard... I really don't understand what the problem is. Any clues? Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message