On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:27 -0500, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > > When I ran adduser, it appeared to work and placed the > home directory in /srv/backups but if you su - testuser, it > complains that there is no home directory. What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? what's the result of "ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups /srv /"? Peter