Re: Managehome not working in User type in Linux OS

On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Deepak Naidu wrote:

> I am using the user type function as below to create and manage  
> user accounts in RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD & BSD,
>
> I have only tried on RHEL, CentOS it works fine for user creation,  
> but not managing homedirectory.
>
> I ran puppetd –test in Ubuntu it showed the below message in debug  
> mode
>
> Ubuntu(Debian), don’t create homedirectory unless –m arg is passed.
>
> [0;34mdebug: User[user1](provider=useradd): Executing '/usr/sbin/ 
> useradd -u 3100 -d /home/user1 -g 4000 -s /bin/bash -c user1 user1'^ 
> [[0m
I just looked at the code and it should work for you; maybe you're  
using an older version?

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