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Re: Use creation problem on X-Serve

Hello, new on the list. Would have preferred to lurk a little longer, but this subject has also rattled my chain. :-)
I'm a freelance consultant, and one of my clients is a 30 user advertising agency, all Mac OS X Panther.

On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Simon Slavin wrote:


On 18 Nov 2005, at 4:47pm, David Riddle wrote:

When he creates a new user, locally on the server, using the remote admin tools (because the server is headless), he can create the user without problem, but he can't create the home directory. The admin tool allows him to give the instruction, allows him to save, and doesn't give him an error message, but the directory just isn't created.

The home directory may not be created until the user logs in for the first time. It takes quite a lot of time to create a home directory and the administrator wouldn't want to wait for it to be finished before they could carry on with the next one.

It is insane, pardon my strong language, that this would slow the administrator down. In a unix environment, the creation of the new home directory should just happen more or less instantaneously (or in the background, at least) when the user is created, and the admin can go on about his work. If it takes a bit of time, it nonetheless shouldn't prevent the admin from continuing on with other tasks. Try it in Linux or BSD at the command line, for comparison.

Tell him to create a user and then have that user log in. See if / that/ creates a home directory. 
Interesting.

In workgroup manager I see the button that says "Create Home Directory" and it has never done anything for me (probably what the original poster is describing), so I just make sure the paths are like I want them(nonstandard here) and ssh in to use the command line and create a directory in the right place, with the right name and the right permissions. When the user logs in, the directory gets populated. If I haven't done that, the uses ends up not having a home directory somehow (maybe because my home directories are on a different disk, in /home instead of /Users!?).

Have to try this again to confirm that user directories don't get created by user logins, but that is certainly my recollection.
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