You must specify the home directory with the -d flag ex: # useradd -d /home/test test At least, that's what the manual says. Give it a try. At 15:44 10 02 1999 -0500, Spamoff wrote: > >Hello all. > >First of all some info. > >I have several variants of Linux, as well as FreeBsd, OpenBsd and NetBsd. > >This is the US commercial pavkage of Suse 5.3. > >I installed ity as a full install as I want to see what's loaded and 'play' >with the system. > >O.K - Let's move on > > >just tried adduser ( sorry useradd, I hate it when people change >fundamental commands around) from the command line. > >It created the user , I gave it a password, went to log-in . It takes the log >in and then comes back with no home created home=/ > >yes...it puts me as a user into the root > >and failed to create me a directory in home. > >Can anyone else try this and confirm it. > >Create a user from the command line > >adduser test > >passwd test > >(give it a password ). > >log in as test. > >See what it displays to the screen and where it put's you. > >Thanks. > >Regards...Martin > > >- >To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e >Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the >archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html > - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
