Darkmere skel # useradd my useradd: warning: CREATE_HOME not supported, please use -m instead. this makes the default skeleton unapplyable, useradd again will only bark that the user already exists.
Hi! This error message is generated because we have "CREATE_HOME yes" in /etc/login.defs Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), CREATE_HOME is not supported by the stock shadow package. From shadow-4.0.1/src/useradd.c *******snip************* if (mflg) { create_home (); copy_tree (def_template, user_home, user_id, user_gid); } else if (getdef_str ("CREATE_HOME")) { /* * RedHat added the CREATE_HOME option in login.defs in their * version of shadow-utils (which makes -m the default, with * new -M option to turn it off). Unfortunately, this * changes the way useradd works (it can be run by scripts * expecting some standard behaviour), compared to other * Unices and other Linux distributions, and also adds a lot * of confusion :-(. * So we now recognize CREATE_HOME and give a warning here * (better than "configuration error ... notify administrator" * errors in every program that reads /etc/login.defs). -MM */ fprintf (stderr, _ ("%s: warning: CREATE_HOME not supported, please use -m instead.\n"), Prog); *******end snip******************* I will defer to the author of the shadow package (unless told otherwise by drobbins) and set 'CREATE_HOME no' in login.defs Thanks for the bug report.
