HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

usermod(4) usermod(4)

NAME

usermod - list of home directory names

DESCRIPTION

/etc/default/usermod

is an ASCII ﬁle that contains a list of home directory names.

The

usermod command checks this conﬁguration ﬁle before changing a user’s home directory. If the

user’s old home directory is listed in

/etc/default/usermod

, the user’s directories/ﬁles will be

prevented from moving to a new home directory.

Each line in the ﬁle is of the form:

directory_name

consisting of entries similar to:

/home/newuser

Only system administrators can modify this conﬁguration ﬁle to add directory entries.

Each home directory is listed in the ﬁle by its absolute path name. Directory names exceeding

PATH_MAX

characters will be silently ignored by usermod.

The behavior of the usermod command is undeﬁned if:

• There are leading and trailing spaces in the line.

• There are empty lines in the conﬁguration ﬁle.

• Symbolic links are speciﬁed instead of actual directories.

• Relative paths are speciﬁed instead of actual directories.

AUTHOR

usermod was developed by HP.

FILES

/etc/default/usermod