[rescue] first solaris 8 question

[laz at orac.moaa.org]

> I just set up my first Solaris 8 box (OK, my first solaris box).  I'm having
> trouble creating user directories.  Anyone mind explaining why what happens
> below happens, and how to work around it?  I am of course logged in as root.
> 
> # ls -l
> <snip>
> dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Feb 21 11:56 home
> <snip>
> # chmod u+w /home
> chmod: WARNING: can't change /home
> # 
> 

/home is a special case in solaris.  It is controled by the
automount daemon.  this is used for networked machines so that
the path to your home dir looks like /home/username, when it may be
in reality  MachineA:/export/home/username or some such.
so to use /home, you can either disable the automount daemon for
/home, or put a path in the /etc/auto_home file. 
either way, see 'man automount' for more information.

Matt