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From: jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John Ackermann)
Subject: Re: UserAdd won't make home directory?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 13:24:53 GMT

kburtch@pts.mot.com (Kevin Burtch) writes:

> Now don't feel dumb (I did the same thing:)
>Try useradd -m <username>. The /home/<username> directory should
>be created and the (hidden) files in /etc/skel(?) will be copied.

Oh, there's plenty of room to feel dumb, all right :-). I actually read
the man page, and saw that there were options to deal with the home
directory, but assumed that the default behaviour would be to create the
directory.

Oh well, we live and learn...

John

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