[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?
> 
> 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?

Does it work on your dev server?

Try running lcuseradd by hand and see what happens?
(You'll need to logged in as www for this.)


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