permission problem in home directory when creating users with useradd

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi

I am using RHEL4. I used "useradd" command to create a user.

# useradd john
or
# useradd -m john

# cd /home

# ll -d john

d--------- 2 john john 96 Mar 23 09:16 john

so there is no permission (rwx) set in this directory.

I am getting following error. If i try to change the permission thru "root" user.

# chmod 755 -R john
chmod: changing permissions of `john': Operation not permitted
chmod: `john': Permission denied


All the users home directories are created in same way.

So pls help to solve this problem.

[Gokul Chandola]

Hi,
There is some other issue with security.
By default there should be some default rights to User (newly created).

There is issue with security policy applied with your system.

First you have to check security policy.

There may be some other issue with new user add is linked with other policy.

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

maybe you should do it as 'root' or 'administrator'.

HTH
Volkmar

[Autocross.US · Accepted solution]

Please post the output of these commands:

- umask
- ls -ldZ /home

I suspect the selinux context of /home may be incorrect. It should be:

system_u:object_r:home_root_t

[Jeroen Peereboom]

L.S.

what is the result of (all executed by root):
- ls -ld /home
- cd /home; mkdir newdir; ls -ld newdir
- umask
- which useradd (or type useradd)

JP