Bug 114095

Summary:	useradd won't create home directory
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Martin Mrazik <mmrazik>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Bug Blocks:	97395

Description Martin Mrazik 2005-08-30 11:46:09 UTC

how to reproduce:  
 
useradd -d /tmp/test_user test_user 
 
if [ -d /tmp/test_user ]; then 
    echo PASSED; else 
    echo FAILED; 
fi 
 
I reproduced this behaviour on SL10 beta3 and on my SL9.3 installation. The 
command without the -d parameter does not work as well.

Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-30 11:50:15 UTC

RTFM "man useradd":

       -m, --create-home
              Create home directory for new user account.

Comment 2 Martin Mrazik 2005-08-30 12:01:37 UTC

still don't understand why -d does not imply -m. but nevermind....

Comment 3 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-30 12:04:12 UTC

Because specifying another directory as the default has nothing to do with if
the directory should be created or not.