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. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill