when ogin into user its going to root directory

[Ramana.Sv]

Hi, i created one user "Ramana", when i log into Ramana user its going to "/" (root) directory, its not going Ramana, wher is the mistake? pls


Thnak you,
Ramana

[Ivan Krastev]

See user home directory in /etc/passwd.
If it's missing create dir and change to desired value with usermod or vipw.


regards,
ivan

[Ed D]

Hi,

It could be a permission problem with /home or /home/ramana or an error in /etc/passwd for user ramana. Do you want to post:
ls -ld /home
ls -ld /home/ramana
grep ramana /etc/passwd

Ed

[Ramana.Sv]

mean iam not getting please xplain clearly,

[Pete Randall]

The user's home directory is specified in /etc/passwd:

#grep "Ramana" /etc/passwd
Ramana:RMME3ZGeVQz2c:112:200:,,,:/home/Ramana:/usr/bin/sh

If the passwd entry contains an invalid or non-existent home directory then the login process will be unable to send them to the desired directory and they will end up in / instead.

Is that clear enough?


Pete

[AwadheshPandey]

Ramana,

Can you explain the process how you have created the user, I think there is some issue in creating user itself.

Sol:
create a directory mkdir /home/Ramana
then vi /etc/passwd and change the home dir field to /home/Ramana.
chown Ramana:users(group)/home/Ramana
it will do the things you need.
command to add user should be
useradd -c "Ramana Sv" -d /home/Ramana -m Ramana

Regards,

Awadhesh

[MarkSyder]

When I've seen problems like this it's usually because the home directory is on an NFS mount which is currently unavailable.

cd without a directory name should take you to the home directory. Log in as Ramana, type cd, and report the result.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Dennis Handly]

>Mark: When I've seen problems like this it's usually because the home directory is on an NFS mount which is currently unavailable.

Right, or the automounter went belly up.

[Ramana.Sv]

I try out this command but its giving the following message.

India # grep murali /etc/passwd
murali:hlXNS4glU9nn6:104:20::/home/murali:/sbin/sh


please help me sir how to do this one
pease tell me the comand
bassical i used command to create user is
adduser ramana
passwd ramana
that's it only.....

[Pete Randall]

That looks correct:

murali:hlXNS4glU9nn6:104:20::/home/murali:/sbin/sh

The first field is the user name, murali. The second field is the password hash, hlXNS4glU9nn6. Then we have the uid and gid. The "gecos" fields are blank. Then we have the home directory, /home/murali, and finally the login shell.

What does

ll -d /home/murali

show?


Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

# cd /home/murali
does this directory exist ?

# mkdir /home/murali
# chown murali:20 murali /home/murali

Robert-Jan

[Dennis Handly]

You of course can use SAM to create users and it will make sure the home directory is built correctly and populated with the initial "." files for the shells and vi.

[Geoff Wild]

As Robert-Jan says - it sounds like the home dir wasn't created.

just make it:

mkdir /home/ramana


then copy .login, .profile from say another user into that directory and then:

chown -R ramana:users /home/ramana

Rgds...Geoff

[Ramana.Sv]

when i use this command ll -d /home/murali
it giving the like this follwing.

drwxrwxr-x 2 murali users 96 Aug 3 18:27 /home/murali

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Ramana,

# cd /home/murali
# df -k .
please post the ouput from the df -k . command

[Dave Hutton]

Actually this looks wrong to me:
murali:hlXNS4glU9nn6:104:20::/home/murali:/sbin/sh


I thought only root user should be using /sbin/sh.

Normal users I thought are all supposed to use /usr/bin/sh

For the heck of it when you log in as your user what does $echo $SHELL show?

[Pete Randall]

Dave,

That's true that normal users ought to be using /usr/bin/sh, but /sbin/sh will work without causing any problems.


Pete

[Dave Hutton]

Pete, you are correct. I tested it after I posted and like you suggested it didn't cause my account to use /

I should of tested it prior.

[Ramana.Sv]

iam getting this error
"/tmp/SEDC/murali_4834/Ex07425" Permission denied

[Dave Hutton]

what are the permissons on the file?
ll /tmp/SEDC/murali_4834/Ex07425

bdf /tmp is tmp full?

[Ramana.Sv]

no having more space..

/dev/vg00/lvol6 5242880 979056 3997339 20% /tmp

[Dave Hutton]

Actually my above post I was thinking two different things. I didn't mean to ask what is $SHELL set at. What I did mean to ask is what does echo $HOME show?

I'm wondering by the other how to change HOME thread something didn't get messed up.

[Dennis Handly]

>I am getting this error
"/tmp/SEDC/murali_4834/Ex07425" Permission denied

What was the command you used?

>Dave: what are the permissons on the file?
/tmp/SEDC/murali_4834/Ex07425

Right.
This error can occur if TMPDIR isn't set correctly:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/SEDC/murali_4834
$ chmod a-x /tmp/SEDC/murali_4834
$ TMPDIR=/tmp/SEDC/murali_4834 vi himom.C
"/tmp/SEDC/murali_4834/Ex25745" Permission denied

So make sure TMPDIR is something like just /var/tmp. Or if you really have your heart set on /tmp/SEDC/murali_4834/, make sure you have execute permission on the directory paths.

You may have something like:
export TMPDIR=/tmp/SEDC/$LOGNAME_$$ ??