Creating a user with a pre-existing directory

[dictum9]

On 11.23, I am creating a user with a home directory being a preexisting directory such as /apps/acta/staging/incoming. I used -d switch and did not use -m -k /etc/skel as I always do.

The /etc/password string looks good. However, when I su to that newly created user, and do pwd, I end up in "/apps" directory, why is that?

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Did you "su -" to that user or just "su". You must use the "-" option to initialize the environment.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

A mistake in /etc/skel ?

SEP

[Chris Wilshaw]

I'd check the .profile for that ID - it could simply be that somewhere in there, it runs

cd /apps

You can also check to make sure it's set up with the correct home directory using

echo $HOME

This should display the same string that you've seen in /etc/passwd

[F Verschuren]

It you dit a su - and end up in /appl than normaly /appl/acta does not exists...