Hello all. First of all some info. I have several variants of Linux, as well as FreeBsd, OpenBsd and NetBsd. This is the US commercial pavkage of Suse 5.3. I installed ity as a full install as I want to see what's loaded and 'play' with the system. O.K - Let's move on just tried adduser ( sorry useradd, I hate it when people change fundamental commands around) from the command line. It created the user , I gave it a password, went to log-in . It takes the log in and then comes back with no home created home=/ yes...it puts me as a user into the root and failed to create me a directory in home. Can anyone else try this and confirm it. Create a user from the command line adduser test passwd test (give it a password ). log in as test. See what it displays to the screen and where it put's you. Thanks. Regards...Martin - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>