adding a user

[ddm at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:33:05PM -0400, Manish Raj Sharma wrote:
> I am sure I am root ( coz I have been able to install a couple of packages
> like real player on the box ). Also the directory /home exists
> It's true that I haven't installed the system myself but had I not been
> root I wouldn't have been able to install the packages.
> I tried adding user by using the KDE user managemnet tool ..inwhich case
> it did allow me to add the user but did not create the /home/xyz
> directory. When I looged in using this xyz id.....the screen blinked for
> a few moments, recovered and again gave me the login screen.
> It's really weird but then that's what happened. 

It sounds to me like your /home is NFS mounted, and root squashed.
If that's true, you'll have to add the user's home directory someplace
else (on a non-NFS filesystem).


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