Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

From: Peter Wiersig <friese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:26:04 +0200

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:27 -0500, Martin McCormick <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I ran adduser, it appeared to work and placed the
home directory in /srv/backups but if you su - testuser, it
complains that there is no home directory.

What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"?

what's the result of "ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups /srv /"?

Peter

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- Proper Use of adduser.conf
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