Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:45:16 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory? Message-ID: <200901161345.16683.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <49706606.6060304@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <49706606.6060304@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello, > I have the following situation: > > Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new > machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage > of an automated creation of loggin in user via pam_mkhomedir. Creation > should be done manually. > My question: is it possible to use a FreeBSD tool/command like 'pw(8)' > only for copying and initiating an existant user's home? > > I tried simply pw useradd USER -m -b /homes/ for that purpose, but pw > errors me saying the user USER already exists (is a OpenLDAP user). Try usermod instead of useradd. Jonathan
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