From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 19:25:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA03662 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from smtp2.mailsrvcs.net (smtp2.gte.net [207.115.153.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03657 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:25:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phbrown@gte.net) Received: from pb486 (1Cust6.tnt1.redondo-beach.ca.da.uu.net [208.254.140.6]) by smtp2.mailsrvcs.net with SMTP id VAA04579 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:29:21 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <347A4648.212A@gte.net> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:30:16 -0800 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5 Cannot Find User's Home Directories Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just installed 2.2.5, then added the usual user (for relatively worry-free use of the system) while still running the /floppies/boot.flp kernel. I guess I misunderstood the use of the home directory field, so when I logged in as a user the system could not find, and apparently had not built, a home directory. I created a new home directory in /usr/home using a backup from previous FreeBSD releases. Then I edited /etc/passwd to indicate the correct home directory. That did not work, so I then edited /etc/master.passwd with same. No good. If I knew the name of the module (maybe login.c .... I will look after sending this requset for help) that locates the user's home directory, maybe I could scroll through that to answer my own question. Could someone please give me some suggestions that can solve my (user login) problems and/or give me some insight as to where I might look?