create user home dir

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Thu Mar 2 00:39:32 UTC 2006


Rotariu Bogdan-Stefan wrote:
> Marcel Janssen wrote:
> 
>> That worked.
>> I expected this to happen with usermod, shouldn't it ?
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> I guess that it should, tested it and doesnt work.
> 


usermod -d only updates /etc/passwd with the home directory, doesn't 
actually create one. And -m only works if a home directory is defined in 
the first place.




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