pw create home dir issue

Unga unga888 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 22 10:54:15 UTC 2008


--- Peter Boosten <peter at boosten.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> Unga wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I cannot get the pw to create a new user's home
> > directory. Here is what I used:
> > 
> > pw -V /etc useradd -n test \
> > 	-c "Test User" -b /home/ \
> > 	-G "wheel,operator" -m -M 0700 \
> > 	-k /etc/skel/ -s /usr/local/bin/bash
> > 
> > It creates the user without user's home directory.
> > Once home directory is created manually, the
> account
> > can be used. I don't have a /etc/pw.conf. I also
> used
> > -d /home/, but it still doesn't create the home
> > directory.
> > 
> 
> I use it without the slash:
> 
> adduser -d /home -q -s /usr/local/bin/rzsh
> 
> Works like charm
> 

There is no keyword adduser to the pw(8) :)

Regards
Unga


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