Unable to go to home dir

[sycncs]

Dear Folks

I have this user who is not directed to his own home directory when he logged in to a server. Instead, he ends up on /.

This server is a NFS server.
I have tried changing a few things, but none of them works.

Can someone advice me please? Thank You.

[sycncs]

Sorry, what I meant was this server that he is logging in is connected to a NFS server.

Thank you.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

Which is the OS version.

if it's 11.0 apply this patch PHCO_18572

[sycncs]

Yes, it is 11.00. Is this the only solution?

[sycncs]

I have checked another server in a similiar setup. No, it should not be the patch.
Any more suggestions, please?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Could you give a bit more info.

automount ?
mount homedir whitout automount ?
# mount server:/home/user /mnt
error messages ?

check passwd, auto_home, auto_master on client.

check permissions on server /home/user.

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

In some of our HP 11.0 machines implemented with AFS. when the user logged in using his afs id, instead of home directory users ends up on /. AFS suggest to use this patch for this problem, and it works well after applying this patch

[Stanimir]

Hi!
You could check at least:
1. Are this home dir is described in /etc/passwd /find a row for this user/:
...
thisuser:qUICMhDJkt5PE:129:
102:,,,5:/:/usr/bin/sh
...
2.Are you really have mounted this NFS-dir
from that server on your system, from which
your user want to login.

3.Are you sure he is not there after login:
Try: $pwd

Regards.

[Steve Labar]

You did not mention that the server complains about not being able to find his home directory. Usually, if a user tries to login to a server with an NFS home directory that is not mounted, the machine complains that it can not find the directory. You may want to check his home directory setting in /etc/passwd.

Good Luck.

Steve

[Vincent Fleming]

...and check file file permissions and ownership on the home directory as well... I think it behaves this way if it's not readable.


...just a thought...

Vince

[Mani_3]

Hi

Did u check the /etc/passwd file for the directory entry for the specified user.

Regards
Mani