Re: stupid problem with useradd

[Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi%abou-zahra.net@localhost>]

Thank you, it was indeed a stray link that I had overseen.

Apologies for the noise.

Regards,
  Shadi


Michael van Elst wrote:
> shadi%abou-zahra.net@localhost (Shadi Abou-Zahra) writes:
>
> > "useradd -m username" goes into recursive creation of home directories 
> > like "/home/username/username/username ..." (NetBSD 5.0.1).
>
> If you specify a -d homedir then useradd executes
>
>         mkdir -p homedir
>
> otherwise it executes
>
>         mkdir -p basedir/username
>
> where basedir is either specified with -b basedir (or base_dir basedir
> in /etc/usermgmt.conf) or the literal string /home. None of this can
> generate recursive directories.
>
>
> The directory is then filled recursively with the content from a
> skeleton directory specified with skel_dir in /etc/usermgmt.conf
> or /etc/skel by default.
>
> If the skeleton directory is the same as /home, either by specifying
> skel_dir in /etc/usermgmt.conf or by some weird use of filesystem links,
> you may get the observed behaviour.

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