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- From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
- Subject: Re: HELP: shell-init: Permission denied
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:36:19 GMT
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- sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins) writes:
- : >pwd, dir etc. will work fine. I recommend to use USERADD(8) because
- : >initialization and perms setup will be done automatically.
- :
- : Again, I found this not to be true. The only thing the useradd program
- : did was add the user to the passwd and shadow (password) files. It did
- : nothing else. I thought it would create a directory, but it didn't. So,
- : I did it myself.
-
- You will have to use the option "-m" with useradd to create the
- directory and copy all necessary files into it (use -k to specify
- the skeleton directory; might be /etc/skel).
-
- Hendrik.
-