Apple oxs Creating a Users Home Directory, Creating a Group Folder, Checking a Users Administrator Privileges

Chapter 7 Working With Users and Groups 63
Creating a User’s Home Directory
Normally, you can create a user's home directory by clicking the Create Home Now
button on the Homes pane of Workgroup Manager. You can also create home directory
folders using the createhomedir tool. Otherwise, Mac OS X Server creates the user’s
home directory when the user logs in for the first time.
You can use createhomedir to create
•A home directory for a particular user (-u option)
•Home directories for all users in a directory domain (-n or -l option)
•Home directories for all users in all domains in the directory search path (-a option)
For more information, type man createhomedir to view the man page.
In all cases, the home directories are created on the server where you run the tool.
To create a home directory for a particular user:
$ createhomedir [(-a|-l|-n domain)] -u userid
To create a home directory for users in the local domain:
$ createhomedir -l
To create a home directory for users in the local domain:
$ createhomedir [(-a|-l|-n domain)] -u userid
You can also create a user’s home directory using the serversetup tool.
To create a home directory for a particular user:
$ serversetup -createHomedir userid
The command displays a 1 if the user ID you specify doesn’t exist.
Mounting a User’s Home Directory
You can use the mnthome command to mount a user’s home director y. For more
information, see the man page.
Creating a Group Folder
You can use the CreateGroupFolder command to set up group folders. For more
information see the man page.
Checking a User’s Administrator Privileges
To see if a user is a server administrator:
$ serversetup -isAdministrator shortname
The command displays a 0 if the user has administrator privileges, 0 if the user doesn’t.
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