John Ackermann x 2966 (jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM) wrote:
: I'm trying to use useradd (adduser? -- I'm at work and linux is at home;
: anyway, it's the add user function for the shadow password kit) but it
: won't create the home directory for the new user.  The man page
: indicates that it should, and doing "useradd -D" indicates that it knows
: the proper base directory.  The user appears to be properly added to the
: passwd and shadow files.

: This is from the SLS1.03 distribution; I had the same problem with 1.02.
: Is there a permission problem, or am I missing something along the way?

: Thanks...

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: John R. Ackermann, Jr.         Law Department, NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio
: (513) 445-2966                       John.Ackermann@daytonoh.ncr.com
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I think the command is:

useradd -m <username>

(from memory)

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