Sam "Add users"

[Neil Trangmar]

HP/UX 10.10, am getting a problem when attempting to add a user to the system via sam:

Failed to add the user "fred". An invalid argument was supplied to an option in the command "/usr/sam/lbin/useradd.sam"

Directly running useradd seems to work OK, although it subsequently requires adjusting the password file entry to tidy things up.

/home permissions are 755 root:root
/etc/.pwd.lock exists

The new user has /usr/bin/csh as its shell, has a unique user id, and shows nothing else out of the ordinary.

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi


Are you using a shared home directory.

I saw something similar once and the user was giving a group while the home dir was owned by a different group.



Steve Steel

[Neil Trangmar]

Yes, the users log into a communal directory where they use a shared .login setup.

[Neil Trangmar]

Just tried your suggestion out (fixing the group permission on the home directory) and it now creates users correctly.

Thanks for your help. :-)