I added the list back into this exchange.
It depends on *how* you add the user. It has to be done -- the user account
needs to own its home directory (or at least have rwx rights to it) -- but
programs like adduser and useradd normally take care of this detail for you.
At 10:54 AM 7/13/00 PDT, Chris S wrote:
>i got a reply saying that i should run this command:
>
>chown cspielma /home/cspielma
>
>then when i logged in as cspielma i was able to access that directory.
>do i have to do this(the chown command) for every user i add?
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