useradd question

[dictum9]

I need to add a few users all with a pre-existing (and the same) home directory. How do I do that?

I used the -d flag but it complains about -m and -k flags. When I remove the latter, it doesn't work either.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

The following works for me:

useradd -g 20 -d /home/plr newuser
# grep newuser /etc/passwd
newuser:*:119:20::/home/plr:/sbin/sh


Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

useradd -u 9977 -g mouse -d /home/mickey minnie

The "gotcha" is that the existing home directory, /home/mickey, must have group "mouse" and be readable and searchable by group "mouse".

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The 'useradd' manpages note that "the directory which will be shared should have read and execute permissions for the group. Otherwise, useradd will report an error."

Does your directory meet that criteria? What error (exit value) does 'useradd' report?

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You could set up an alternate set of profiles in /etc/skel, perhaps /etc/skel2 and use skel2 as instead of the default.

That should get past any errors you encounter now.

Which version of HP-UX do you use?

SEP

[dictum9]

Using the -g switch worked nicely.. thank you.