On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Larry Linder wrote:

> Good Morning:
>
> When you make a fresh install of SL 5.4 you cannot make the login directory
> other than $home/user.
> I tried this 3 times and l keep a careful set of notes on all systems.
> The first system is a 64 bit dual core athelon - After a few days you can now
> create a user account in something other than /home.
>
> Two more systems.
> 1.  When this system was loaded,  you could not setup a user in anything
> but /home.   A day later you could set up a user anywhere as we used to.  It
> was left connected to the network.
> 2.  When this system was loaded, you could not setup a user in anything
> but /home..   It was unplugged from the network,  you could not make a user
> account in anything but /home.
>
> Guess:
> Once all system were left on the network something got updated over night to
> fix the problem.
> There are several bugs on BugZilla that are complaining about the same thing.
> The story is that the input login code was rewritten and botched but later
> fixed.   The current downloadeble .iso disks do not have the fix in place.

The .iso is created when the Update is released.  In this case it is 5.4 .

Since the iso images do not have all the updates released after their 
creation it is good practice to do a

     yum update

after install.  The network install for 5.x only selects the newest 
packages during the install thus there is no need to do a yum update.

>
> I don't know where the update log is but it should tell the story of how this

The yum update log is in /var/log/ .  Email is sent to root when packages 
are updated during the daily yum cron job.

> problem goes away in the middle of the night.  Any clues.
>
> Fix:  Install SL 5.4, do not create a user account, log in as root, update the
> system and the problem should be fixed.   I have wasted a lot of time
> debugging this and almost jumped ship.  Someone need to verify this process
> to see if it fixes the problem.
>
> Conclusion:
> Over all SL 5.4 is very good and everything we have tried works.
>
> Thank You for your nice work     you-all.   Used to live in south.  :)

Thanks for debugging this issue.

>
> Larry Linder
>

-Connie Sieh