Re: 9.3 Weirdness

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:42:10 +0000, Rick wrote:

> I have found some strange things with my 9.3 install:
>
> Apparently icewm doesn't install properly. I have read of others
having
> problems,also.
>
> I tried to add a user from YaST and it did not create a home folder.

> Neither did useradd.
>
> When I looked into the etc/sysconfig folder in detailed list view,
some
> files, including bootloader, displaymanager, suseconfig and display> manager are show as filetype Usenet News Message.
>
> Has anyone else seen these things?

OK... I just tried to add a user from YaST again, and it worked. I
again
tried useradd from a console as su - and the home directory wasn't
created.

--
Rick

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:00:09 GMT
Rick <none@nomail.com> wrote:

> OK... I just tried to add a user from YaST again, and it worked.

That's good! :-)


> I again tried useradd from a console as su - and the home directory> wasn't created.

You have to use the '-m' option for 'useradd' to *create* the home
dir.
It's always been that way, unless you had a script that replaced
'useradd'. I've just checked this scenario in SUSE 7.3, 8.2 and 9.2
and
they all react the same way . . .


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