[geeks] solaris 8 user problem

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:55:30AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:02:51AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > joshua:x:500:100::/home/joshua:/bin/sh
> > 
> > When I log in, I see:
> > No directory! Logging in with home=/
> 
> this is a slight stupidity in useradd.  it just assumes you will be using
> automount to get /home.  this is not the case be default on solaris (joy)
> so the best thing to do is either stop /home from being an automount spot
> or tell useradd '-d /export/home/joshua' so that it puts your home somewhere
> where you can actually create a directory.

Yeah, that automount thing.  That is what I expected to be providing /home.
So why isn't it?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd