RE: [ILUG] Problem with POP3 server (Solved)

From: Guillermo Lettoponte (lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com)
Date: Thu 30 Sep 1999 - 11:21:33 IST


On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jakma, Paul wrote:

>
> > > User "bernie" was added in the past week but for some reason the
> > > "adduser"
> > > command did not add /home/bernie.
>
> > Not good. Log a bug with the POP3 maintainer. This sort of stuff
> > shouldn't happen.
> >
>
> uhmm... wouldn't it be a bug in the adduser script?
Nope... from the help:
usage: useradd [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...]
                [-d home] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-m [-k template]]
                [-f inactive] [-e expire mm/dd/yy] [-p passwd] [-n] [-r]
name
       useradd -D [-g group] [-b base] [-s shell] [-f inactive] [-e
expire mm/dd/yy

the -m flag tells it to create the home directory.. otherwise it just adds
it to the password database.

Regards
L.

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Guillermo Lettoponte							System Administrator
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