Managing Home Directories With the Solaris Management Console

Keep the following in mind when using the Solaris Management Console tools to manage user home directories:

• If you use the Users Tool's Add User Wizard to add a user account and you specify the user's home directory as /export/home/username, the home directory is automatically setup to be automounted, and the following entry is added to the passwd file:

  /home/username

• The only way you can use Users Tool to set up a user account that does not automount the home directory is to set up a user account template that disables this feature. Then, you can add users with this template. There is no way to disable this feature with the Add User Wizard.

• You can use the smuser add command with the -x autohome=N option to add a user without automounting the user's home directory. However, there is no option to the smuser delete command to remove the home directory after the user is added. You would have to remove the user and the user's home directory with the Users Tool.