Vijaya S said: > Hi all, > I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe > > But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser > so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in > /etc/passwd file > But when i cd /home/john.doe > it says no such file or directory and i cant see any directory in /home > as john.doe. > > Pls tell me what am i doing wrong > i need this for my mail server > I treid same with redhat and it worked > is it a debian issue? > > Regards, > Vijaya > >
Read "man useradd" and you will see that to create the home directory you need to do useradd -m user.name . FYI, having a dot in the username is not the best practice. Some programs will barf on that, though they are few and far between. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
