[LON-CAPA-admin] Unable to create a filesystem user

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Hon-Kie,

> I am trying to create a filesystem user and is not able to so. The 
> message coming back from loncapa is
> 
> Creating user "AnalChemLib" in domain "fsu"
> Generating user: error: con_lost
> Home server: no_host
> 
> On lonnet.log there is the following message.
> 
> Thu Mar  1 12:45:29 2007 (28172): Call to modify user fsu, 
> AnalChemLib, , unix, , , Introduction to Analytical Chemistry (CHM 
> 3120C), (forceid: ) desiredhome = fsul1 by fsudc at fsu in domain fsu
> 
> loncapa does create the AnalChemLib directory but it does not have 
> any files like passwd .. in it. The lcuseradd has the following permission
> 
> -rwsr-sr-x  1 root root   17187 Jan 15 09:28 lcuseradd
> 
> Any suggestion why the user is not created? I suspect some permission 
> settings for scripts like lcuseradd but that seems right.

There should be a lcuseradd.log 
Can you take a look in there and see if there is anything obivous?

Additionally lond.log may contain some information...


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guy at albertelli.com   0-7-0-9-27,137