I will be wearing the dunce cap on this one for a while ... Thanks to all that responded: [Brendan.Gregg@Sun.COM] [cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu] [michael@desimone.net] [pgilbert@seattledata.com] [ric@Opus1.COM] [MichaelK@jBASE.com] [baudet@transat.com] [Stephen.Oxley@its.monash.edu.au] [dwarf333@yahoo.com] and anyone I may have missed. The problem here was was two-fold: I was trying to get useradd to make an automounted directory (/home/mha) & I didn't use the -m flag (I will be going back to school on how to read usage messages). I ended up doing a -d on the mount point (/export/home/mha) and used vipw to change the home directory to the automount (/home/mha). Thanks to all and to all a good night ... mha ps - strange; I sent this on the 28'th and got a flood of replies 5 days later, anyone know of email lags on this list ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Auria > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 10:46 AM > To: 'sunmanagersa@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: useradd > > I've tried all kinds of combos and I still get invalid syntax. Anyone > help this feeble old mind (this is embarassing) ? > > mha > > ps - Solaris 2.5.1 on Ultra 2 ... > > # pwd > /export/home > # ls -l > total 18 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Apr 25 10:16 mha > drwxr-xr-x 5 p3md other 1024 Oct 13 2000 p3md > drwxr-xr-x 25 p3rtp other 4096 Apr 18 11:04 p3rtp > drwxr-xr-x 10 pinnacle staff 1536 Dec 24 14:04 pinnacle > drwxr-xr-x 2 ppp other 512 Feb 25 1998 ppp > # useradd -u2022 -g10 -d/home/mha -s/usr/bin/ksh -c"Michael H. Auria" > -k/etc/sk > el mha > UX: useradd: ERROR: invalid syntax. > usage: useradd [-u uid [-o] | -g group | -G group[[,group]...] | -d dir | > -s shell | -c comment | -m [-k skel_dir] | -f inactive | > -e expi > re ] login > useradd -D [-g group | -b base_dir | -f inactive | -e expire ] > # useradd -u 2022 -g 10 -d /home/mha -s /usr/bin/ksh -c "Michael H. Auria" > -k /e > tc/skel mha > UX: useradd: ERROR: invalid syntax. > usage: useradd [-u uid [-o] | -g group | -G group[[,group]...] | -d dir | > -s shell | -c comment | -m [-k skel_dir] | -f inactive | > -e expi > re ] login > useradd -D [-g group | -b base_dir | -f inactive | -e expire ] > # > > > Michael H. Auria (mha) 800-232-2123 > Technical Support Engineer fax: 408-577-0907 > ADAC Laboratories, A Philips Medical Systems Company RTP > Division > > >Received on Thu May 3 07:32:31 2001
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