Help needed: user directory, /home/user - how?

[Sho]

Hi there,

I believe I have a very stupid problem. I'm used to every user having an own sub-directory in /home. Well, I added an user called "sho", and there is no /home/sho now. I can mkdir' one, of course, but I'm not sure that's right - cause' where do those nifty little .config files come from, then? And I don't really know the right commands to make it actually usable by sho (something with chmod, I guess).

Edit: Guess it matters. Using Gentoo 1.4 RC1.

Also, I'm very sorry about my cruel English and I want to apologize for any inconvenience that might cause.

[maxpower]

When you create your user use the -m flag to automatically create the directory. The profile files will be automatically copied over when you login.

mAx

[Sho]

I believe it worked - directory is there and usable now, though there still aren't any .config files (bash, X, xft). I guess those I will have to create manually?

Thank you very much for your fast help!

[maxpower]

The mandatory files should be created on first login, some files will have to be created manually and others will get created when you run that particular program. You can always copy the files from another home directory if you have them set up the way you like.

mAx

[Sho]

Aye. Again, thank you very much!

[jules]

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[Jeld]

useradd -m will automatically copy all the files in /etc/skel directory to the new home dir. If you want every user to get particular configs put your files there.
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[_SkeLeToN_]

By the way I have a question.

When I add user like this : adduser -d /home/user -s /bin/bash -m -k /etc/skel -p test user

It create the user with the home dir and everything but when I try to log into that user i always get invalid password. So to resolve the problem I have to edit /etc/shadow and remove the test portion which is the password and save it. So when I log back for the password I push enter and log into the user then I use the passwd command and the password will now worked.

I try without -p but i got some garbage in the /etc/shadow for that user and I need to remove it before I log into that new user ... this is really odd why does it do that ?

Gentoo 1.4rc1

[pjp]

An answer to _SkeLeToN_'s question might be found here.

For normal useradd questions, see Adding users.
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