Re: Adding users - two quick questions

["Patrick Kirk" <patrick@kirks.net>]

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> About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
user's
> homedir after assuming the identity of the user.   Usually this means
> that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
> you may have other reasons.  Just make sure that the entry in /etc/passwd
> for the user accurately reflects their homedir, then 'chown -R user ~user'
> and 'chmod -R u+rwX ~user'.
Question is why useradd john -d /home/john doesn't work
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> I am not sure that listing the users' commands is legal (but I'm not a
> lawyer so don't ask me) or desirable.  It's called 'process accounting' in
I would hope that logging what contractors are doing on my machine is legal
or else I could be charged for work that was never done and/or liable for
abuse of the system.

Thanks.

Patrick