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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:19:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909032319.48285.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46d08bd30909031414j48c9fa75ma0c70e4eb6e0bcfe@mail.gmail.com>

On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote:
> I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root
> user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries
> useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists.
> 
> fstab - dev/sda3        /                  ext3              noatime
> 
> Thanks in Advnaced,
> Ninus
> 

root does not have a home in /home.

root's home is /root





  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 20:41 [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/? Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-03 21:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-03 21:14   ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:19     ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2009-09-03 21:29       ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:40         ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:45           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-03 21:49             ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:52               ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:02 ` Allan Gottlieb

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