This one time, at band camp, Steinar H. Gunderson said: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > nfs-common tries to add a new user with homedir /home/statd. However, > > /home is an nfs-mounted filesystem and user root is not allowed to > > create/modify files on it: > > Actually, it adds a system user; if system users aren't created with home > directories in a legal place, the bug sounds like one in adduser to me (but > honestly, not having a writable /home also sounds a bit odd). Not that > nfs-utils really needs a home directory for statd...
When you set up a system user, the general rule of thumb is to specify their home somewhere with the --home argument. if you don't do this, adduser defaults to /home/$user. You can also specify --no-create-home to avoid the issue entirely, if they don't need a $HOME. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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