Re: [CentOS] nis and new users

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:27 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:

Every time a "new" user logs into a development box (which does not use nfs for the home dirs) the get could not chdir to their home dir. They call me with the error and I do a:

cp -a /etc/skel/ ~USER && chown USER.users -R ~USER/

and it is fixed.

Is there an automated way?

From CLI, use useradd (man useradd) which has a parameter to

automatically set up user's home, including copying /etc/skel.

From an X gnome desktop session (System->Administration->Users and

Groups), I can't remember if it's automatic or if it has a checkbox for that.

Either case should fix it.

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HTH