Urgent**Solaris user issue**Urgent

Question

Hi ;
I create user in solaris 9 as:
useradd -g dba -d /home/applvis applvis
useradd -g dba -d /home/oravis oravis
When i try this in root user
su - oravis or su - applvis i got this
No directory!
cat /etc/passwd | grep applvis
applvis:x:60003:101::/home/applvis:/bin/sh
ls -al /home | grep applvis << returns nothing
when i try this in root user
su applvis
it seems i can switch user but in terminal i still seem root like:
root@test # su applvis
root@test #
how i can understand i swithc user? ( i understand i changed coz its gives mer permission error when i want to do something as applvis )
whoami doesnt work in solaris (
I cant find .profile file too in /home ( by the way i cant see applvis and oravis directory in /home too)
Thanks
Edited by: aaaaa on Oct 23, 2009 11:53 PM
Edited by: aaaaa on Oct 23, 2009 11:54 PM

Answer 1

Hi;
In my sysstem i discoverer automounting is on.Automounting keeps track on /home by default. If you want to manually controll this dir, then you need to disable automountd or comment out any line in /etc/auto_home and /etc/auto_master. After comment out everything you can reboot the system to be sure that automountd has no control over /home.
Thatwhy i create direcotry user under / and give it 777 then issue:
useradd -g dba -d /user/applvis applvis
useradd -g dba -d /user/oravis oravis
when i switch user as
root@test # su - applvis
$
it switched user
I hope this will help other ppl who need it!
Thanks
Edited by: aaaaa on Oct 24, 2009 1:17 AM
Edited by: aaaaa on Oct 24, 2009 1:34 AM