Serious New Install Problem - 2
We had the same problem on a test box micro atx board with dual core & 2 G Ram when we first installed it. We were doing a few more test and now the 64 bit system works and I can add users with the GUI and it gets done correctly and works. There is a problem with a new rewrite for the login checking script. I found it listed as in BugZilla. Will send you the bug report tomorrow Don't plan to give up on SL is the long term answer to our OS issues. -The only thing I will miss is the neat maintence scheme Open Suse has. Larry Linder
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On 13/01/10 21:09, Troy Dawson wrote: >> >> What we are planning to do till we can get this sorted out is to >> install Open Suse 9.3 as 10.3 screwed up with LVM trash. >> >> Larry Linder If you do go down the Opensuse route the current version is 11.2 and it works quite nicely, even presents you the option of partitioned-based disk layout or LVM-based in the installer (you can choose to completely customise it too). 9.3 was end-of-life nearly 2.5 years ago and 10.3 is also discontinued. http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime Good luck Tim Edwards
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Have you tried the command "useradd" or "adduser", using the option -d Here is an example useradd -d /mybigdisk/user1 user1 It will put that users home area in that area. It will also copy everything over and setup permissions correctly. As for the /home directory being there even though you didn't tell it to make one, that is one of the basic directories that get's created every time you do an install. It's been that way for at least 10 years that I know of. Troy Larry Linder wrote: There is a problem with installing new users in a directory other than /home Most of us work from our home directory some use a meg and some use many G. In our scheme to isolate users from OS's we have a number of large disk set up as engr1, engr2, engrnn. A number of users have their login directory in something other than /home. Red Hat some how got this messed up. If you install it, login as root, make a new user account that is like the old account. /engr10/users/llinder. you will not be able to login as linder. Not only that if you use the new user GUI and remove a user it will remove the users directory that it couldn't find for a login The message you get is totally bogus. " Your home directory is listed as '/engr/users/llinder' but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to login with /root directory? It unlikely anything will work . . . unless you use a failsafe no yes " To prove the point I added a new user "bogus" and it a / home/bogus directory was created. Interesting because there was never a /home directory set up during an install. So where is this magic /home directory. It looks like to use SL you have to assign a Tera byte drives to /home and let the garbage pile up, Without much hope of doing an intelligent back up What we are planning to do till we can get this sorted out is to install Open Suse 9.3 as 10.3 screwed up with LVM trash. Larry Linder -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group __
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is the shared volume mounted squashroot (i.e. does root actually have read/write access)? Larry Linder wrote: | There is a problem with installing new users in a directory other than /home | Most of us work from our home directory some use a meg and some use many G. | | In our scheme to isolate users from OS's we have a number of large disk set up | as engr1, engr2, engrnn. A number of users have their login directory in | something other than /home. | | Red Hat some how got this messed up. | | If you install it, login as root, make a new user account that is like the old | account. /engr10/users/llinder. you will not be able to login as linder. | Not only that if you use the new user GUI and remove a user it will remove the | users directory that it couldn't find for a login | | The message you get is totally bogus. | | " Your home directory is listed as | '/engr/users/llinder' | but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to | login with /root directory? | It unlikely anything will work . . . | unless you use a failsafe | no yes | | " | To prove the point I added a new user "bogus" and it a / home/bogus directory | was created. Interesting because there was never a /home directory set up | during an install. So where is this magic /home directory. | | It looks like to use SL you have to assign a Tera byte drives to /home and let | the garbage pile up, Without much hope of doing an intelligent back up | | What we are planning to do till we can get this sorted out is to install Open | Suse 9.3 as 10.3 screwed up with LVM trash. | | Larry Linder - -- Robert E. Blair, Room C221, Building 360 Argonne National Laboratory (High Energy Physics Division) 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA Phone: (630)-252-7545 FAX: (630)-252-5782 GnuPG Public Key: http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb/key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLTiS5OMIGC6x7/XQRAi/pAJwP8JkFd2BKWjTj2by1jdV9L8q7KQCfTtDX QquR+8gXnjTYJGMc6uN08yI= =EAJm -END PGP SIGNATURE- <>
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Larry, Is selinux turned on? Are there any messages in /var/log/audit/audit.log concerning these home areas. How did you add the user? Did you do it by hand or did you use adduser or via some other method? -Connie Sieh On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Larry Linder wrote: There is a problem with installing new users in a directory other than /home Most of us work from our home directory some use a meg and some use many G. In our scheme to isolate users from OS's we have a number of large disk set up as engr1, engr2, engrnn. A number of users have their login directory in something other than /home. Red Hat some how got this messed up. If you install it, login as root, make a new user account that is like the old account. /engr10/users/llinder. you will not be able to login as linder. Not only that if you use the new user GUI and remove a user it will remove the users directory that it couldn't find for a login The message you get is totally bogus. " Your home directory is listed as '/engr/users/llinder' but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to login with /root directory? It unlikely anything will work . . . unless you use a failsafe no yes " To prove the point I added a new user "bogus" and it a / home/bogus directory was created. Interesting because there was never a /home directory set up during an install. So where is this magic /home directory. It looks like to use SL you have to assign a Tera byte drives to /home and let the garbage pile up, Without much hope of doing an intelligent back up What we are planning to do till we can get this sorted out is to install Open Suse 9.3 as 10.3 screwed up with LVM trash. Larry Linder
Serious New Install problem
There is a problem with installing new users in a directory other than /home Most of us work from our home directory some use a meg and some use many G. In our scheme to isolate users from OS's we have a number of large disk set up as engr1, engr2, engrnn. A number of users have their login directory in something other than /home. Red Hat some how got this messed up. If you install it, login as root, make a new user account that is like the old account. /engr10/users/llinder. you will not be able to login as linder. Not only that if you use the new user GUI and remove a user it will remove the users directory that it couldn't find for a login The message you get is totally bogus. " Your home directory is listed as '/engr/users/llinder' but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to login with /root directory? It unlikely anything will work . . . unless you use a failsafe no yes " To prove the point I added a new user "bogus" and it a / home/bogus directory was created. Interesting because there was never a /home directory set up during an install. So where is this magic /home directory. It looks like to use SL you have to assign a Tera byte drives to /home and let the garbage pile up, Without much hope of doing an intelligent back up What we are planning to do till we can get this sorted out is to install Open Suse 9.3 as 10.3 screwed up with LVM trash. Larry Linder
