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

[H. K. Ng]

Hi Guy,


> > 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?

This file is empty.


>Additionally lond.log may contain some information...

There is no entry at around 12:45 in lond.log related to the user creation.

Any other suggestions?

-hk