2010/1/12 Ajeet S Raina <ajeetraina at gmail.com>: > Hello Guys, [snip] > Now When I try logging into the server through : > > username: meet > password:**** > > It says: > > login as: snalamwar > snal at 10.209.37.77's password: > Last login: Wed Jan 13 03:00:09 2010 from 10.209.37.146 > Could not chdir to home directory /home/snal: No such file or directory > -bash-3.2$ > > Then I manually created a directory under /home as snal: > > mkdir /home/snal > > And Tried logging and this time it does login. > > Is this process correct? > Do we need to create home directory manually. Assuming that you are running on CentOS/Redhat, you have a couple options: 1) Run system-config-authentication. Go to the options tab, check the box to create home directories. 2) Set up automount to mount a remote filesystem for the home directory. Both have advantages and disadvantages. I use mostly option 2, with a few critical machines on option 1.
