Making user home directories on a stock Solaris machine
I was charmed to recently discover that Solaris 10 still hasn't fixed
that useradd
issue I saw with Solaris 9.
For my future reference, since I am likely to wind up doing this a lot,
here is how I add users on Solaris 10; this may or may not be the
officially approved way to work around the useradd
issue.
useradd -c Whatever <login>
mkdir /export/home/<login>
chown <login> /export/home/<login>
(This may or may not get the group ownership right. It's hard to care.)
- set the login's initial password with:
passwd <login>
- now, edit
/etc/auto_home
to add a line saying:<login> localhost:/export/home/&
Usefully, you don't need to restart any daemons to get this to take effect.
Theoretically you can now log in to the new account and copy the default
dotfiles from /etc/skel
to your home directory, but as far as I can
see they don't actually have anything useful so you're not actually
missing anything. (Certainly they don't set a useful Solaris $PATH
.)
If you want to skip all of this at the cost of some ugliness in home
directory location, just manually specify that the new user's home
directory is /export/home/<login>
with useradd -d
. I may wind
up doing this for expendable VMWare installs of Solaris, since it's
faster and less annoying.
(Also for my future reference, the index that man -k
needs on Solaris
10 is created with catman -w
.)
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